Conor Mayo-Wilson

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Here is an extended, downloadable version of my CV.

Employment

• Assistant Professor. 2014 -
  University of Washington, Seattle.
  
  
• Assistant Professor. 2013-2014
  Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy.
  
  
• Postdoctoral Researcher. 2012-2013.
  Carnegie Mellon University Department of Philosophy.
  
  

Education

• Ph.D. Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University (August 2012)
  Committee: David Danks (Advisor), Clark Glymour, Kevin Kelly, Michael Strevens (NYU), Kevin Zollman.
  
  
• M.S. Logic, Computation and Methodology, Carnegie Mellon University.
  Committee: Kevin Kelly (Advisor) and David Danks
  
  
• M.S. Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University.
  
  
• B.A. Philosophy (with Honors), Stanford University.
  Thesis Advisors: Michael Friedman and Thomas Ryckman
  Reader: Sol Feferman
  
  
• B.S. Mathematics, Stanford University.
  

Areas of Specialization

Philosophy of Science, Epistemology (esp. formal and social), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Logic

Areas of Competence

Analytic Philosophy, Decision and Game Theory, Ancient Philosophy

Awards

Josephine De Karman Trust Fellowship

Publications and Working Papers

See my papers page.

Talks

If you would like slides from any of my talks, please email me.

• Knowledge in a Statistical World
  • University of Salzburg. Austria. June 23rd, 2015.
  • University of Bristol. England. March 19th, 2015.
  • University of Victoria. Canada. November 21st, 2014.


• Structural Chaos
  • Philosophy of Science Association. November 6th, 2014. Chicago, IL.
  • British Society for Philosophy of Science. University of Cambridge. England. July 9th, 2014.
  • Mathematizing Science II. University of East Anglia. July 2nd, 2014.


• An Epistemic Justification of Interval Estimation.
  • Society for Exact Philosophy. California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech). Pasadena, CA. June 23rd, 2014.
  • Philosophy of Probability. Venice International University. April 3rd, 2014.


• Games Against Nature, Voting on Methodology, and the Social Structure of Science
  • European Philosophy of Science Association. University of Helsinki. Finland. August 29th, 2013.
  • British Society for the Philosophy of Science. University of Exerter. England. July, 2013.
  • Epistemic Groups and Collaborative Research in Science. University of Nancy. France. December 17th, 2012
  • Fourth Midwest Workshop on the Philosophy of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, IN. October 20, 2012.


• Optimal Scientific Communication
  Logic, Questions, and Inquiry. Institut d'histoire de philosophie des sciences et des techniques (IPHST) Paris. June, 2013.
  
  
• Whewell on the Division of Scientific Labor
  Philosophy of Science Association (PSA). San Diego, CA. November, 2012.
  
  
• Reliability of Testimonial Norms in Scientific Communities
  Decisions, Games, and Logic (DGL). Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. June 28th, 2012.
  
  
• Values in Agent-Based Models of Scientific Communities
  Values and Norms in Modeling (VANIM). Eindhoven University of Technology. June 25th, 2012.
  
  
• The Markov Condition
  Seminar on Foundations of Statistics. Department of Statistics. Ludwig Maximillians Universität. June 13th, 2012.
  
  
• Combining Causal Theories
  Works in Progress Series. Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. May 24th, 2012.
  
  
• Expert Testimony in Scientific Communities
  The Collective Dimensions of Science. University of Nancy. France. December 8th, 2011.
  
  
• Efficient Experimentation
  Fourteenth Congress of Logic Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Nancy, France. July 22nd, 2011.
  
  
• Specialization in the Sciences and the Acquisition of Truth
  Seventh Annual Episteme Conference. Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburgh, PA. June 24th, 2011.
  
  
• The Problem of Piecemeal Induction
  • Philosophy of Science Association Biennial Meeting. Montreal, Quebec. November 4th, 2010.
    
  • British Society for Philosophy of Science Annual Meeting. University College Dublin, Ireland. July 8th, 2010.
    
  • Princeton-Rutgers Graduate Conference. May 2, 2010
  
  
• Russell's Logicism and Theory of Coherence.
  PM@100 - Centenary Celebration of the publication of Principia Mathematica. Held in conjunction with annual meeting of the Bertrand Russell Society. McMaster University. May 21st, 2010.
  
  
• Ockham Efficiency Theorem for Random Empirical Methods
  Sixth Annual Formal Epistemology Workshop (FEW) . Carnegie Mellon University. June 19th, 2009.
  
  
• Mixed Strategies in Formal Learning Theory and Ockham's Razor
  2nd Annual Workshop on Decisions, Games, and Logic (DGL). Institute of Logic, Language, and Computation. Amsterdam, July 2, 2008.
  
  
• Theoretical Virtues and the Repeated Game of Science
  University of Colorado at Boulder Graduate Conference. April 5, 2008.
  
  
• Peirce and Brouwer
  8th Annual Midwest Philosophy of Mathematics Workshop. Notre Dame. October 27, 2007
  
  
• Formalization and Justification
  Harvard-MIT Graduate Conference. March 18th, 2007
  
  

Talks Presented by Co-Authors

• Scoring Imprecise Credences: A Mildly Immodest Proposal. University of Bristol. May 2015.
  Presented by Greg Wheeler.


• Epistemic Decision Theory's Reckoning.
  Presented by Greg Wheeler.
  • British Society for Philosophy of Science. Manchester, England. July 2015.
  • Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. November 2014.
  • University Seminar on Logic, Probability, and Games. Columbia University. New York, USA. October 2014.


• Wisdom of the Crowds vs. Groupthink.
  Presented by Kevin Zollman
  • Logic, Reasoning, and Rationality. Ghent University, Belgium. September 20-22, 2010.
    
  • Ninth Conference on Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory (LOFT). University of Toulouse, France. July 5th, 2010
  
  
• The Independence Thesis: When Individual and Social Epistemology Diverge.
  Presented by Kevin Zollman
  • Networks, Signaling, and Social Epistemology London School of Economics. July 14th, 2010.
    
  • Tillburg Institute for Logic and Philosophy of Science Colloquium. Tillburg University, Germany. September 22nd, 2010.
  
  
• Causal Conclusions that Flip Repeatedly and Their Justification.
  Presented by Kevin Kelly
  Twenty Sixth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI). Catalina Island, California. July 9th, 2010.

Teaching

See my previous courses page for syllabi, reading schedules, and assignments from classes that I taught at Carnegie Mellon University. Other materials (e.g. lecture slides, paper prompts, and additional assignments) are available upon request.

Additional Experience

• Summer School in Logic and Formal Epistemology, 2010 - I delivered several lectures on introductory computability theory.
• Philadelphia Debate Institute - Instructor and Discussion Leader (2002).
• Stanford National Forensics Institute - Instructor and Discussion Leader (2002).