Social scientists report difficulties in drawing out testable predictions from the literature on
intersectionality theory. We alleviate that difficulty by showing that some characteristic claims
of the intersectionality literature can be interpreted causally. The formalism of graphical …

Preferably scientific investigations would promote true rather than false beliefs. The
phenomenon of fraud represents a standing challenge to this veritistic ideal. When scientists
publish fraudulent results they knowingly enter falsehoods into the information stream of …

This research note is meant to introduce into philosophical discussion the preliminary results
of an empirical study on the state of blacks in philosophy, which is a joint effort of the
American Philosophical Association's Committee on the Status of Black Philosophers (APA …

Philosophers of science debate the proper role of non-epistemic value judgements in
scientific reasoning. Many modern authors oppose the value free ideal, claiming that we
should not even try to get scientists to eliminate all such non-epistemic value judgements …

Social scientists use many different methods, and there are often substantial disagreements
about which method is appropriate for a given research question. In response to this
uncertainty about the relative merits of different methods, WEB Du Bois advocated for and …

Using a decision theoretic model of scientists' time allocation between potential research
projects I explain the fact that on average women scientists publish less research papers
than men scientists. If scientists are incentivised to publish as many papers as possible, then …

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced governments to make difficult choices that profoundly
affect the health, wealth and freedoms of their populations. To deal with the public health
and economic emergencies generated by COVID-19, these high-stakes decisions have …

Prepublication peer review should be abolished. We consider the effects that such a change
will have on the social structure of science, paying particular attention to the changed
incentive structure and the likely effects on the behaviour of individual scientists. We …

Intersectionality theory explores the peculiar disadvantages that arise as the result of
occupying multiple disadvantaged demographic categories. Addressing intersectionality
theory through quantitative methods has proven difficult. Concerns have been raised about …

This paper addresses the problem of judgment aggregation in science. How should
scientists decide which propositions to assert in a collaborative document? We distinguish
the question of what to write in a collaborative document from the question of collective …