Current collaborations

Theoretical reasoning research cluster

• Researchers with a shared interest in the epistemology and methodology of current science, mathematics and medicine.
• More information.

Homotopy type theory

• Involving researchers in Philosophy and Computer Science.
• Contact David Corfield d.corfield@kent.ac.uk for more information.

Objective Bayesianism

• Jon Williamson (Philosophy) and Fabrizio Leisen and Cristiano Villa (Statistics)
• Contact Jon Williamson j.williamson@kent.ac.uk for more information.

Health methodology group

• Researchers with an interest in using new developments in philosophy to motivate improvements to health methodology.
• We collaborate with organisations such as the National Agency for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), and the Collaborating Centre for Values-Based Practice in Health and Social Care at Oxford.
• We co-organise the EBM+ consortium.
• Staff: David Corfield, Lubomira Radoilska, Michael Wilde, Jon Williamson
• PhD students: Daniel Auker-Howlett, Virginia Ghiara, William Levack-Payne, Alyx Robinson

Research projects

Causal reasoning

• The Metaphysical Foundation of Evidential Pluralism (BA / Leverhulme Trust 2020-2022)
• EBM+ for more effective COVID-19 interventions (GCRF 2020)
• Evidential pluralism in the social sciences (Leverhulme Trust 2019-22)
• Evaluating evidence in medicine (AHRC 2015-18)
• Grading evidence of mechanisms in physics and biology (Leverhulme 2015-18)
• Mechanisms and the evidence hierarchy (AHRC 2012)
• Causality across the levels: biomedical mechanisms and public health policies (BA 2009-11)
• Mechanisms and causality (Leverhulme 2007-10)
• The levels of causality (BA 2008)
• Causality and the interpretation of probability in the social and health sciences (BA 2006-7)

Classification and data mining

• Bio-inspired Classification and Data Mining Algorithms for Bioinformatics (EU)
• A Synergistic Integration of Natural and Artificial Immunology for the Prediction of Hierarchical Protein Functions (EPSRC)

Contextual reasoning

• Exploitation of Context in Communication (Leverhulme 2008-12)

Game-theoretic reasoning

• Reasoning in Coordination Games (Centre for Reasoning 2009-11)

Logical reasoning

• From Objective Bayesian Epistemology to Inductive Logic (AHRC 2012-15)
• Reasoning about evolving computer programs (Centre for Reasoning 2009-11)
• Proficient: Probabilistic logic and probabilistic networks (Leverhulme 2006-8)

Mathematical reasoning

• A Dialogue on Infinity (Templeton Foundation 2008-10)

Methodology

• Coalition Governance in Germany: Strategic Behaviour in a Multi-Level Setting

Probabilistic reasoning

• In Defence of Objective Bayesianism (Leverhulme 2007-9)
• Progicnet: Probabilistic Logic and Probabilistic Networks (Leverhulme 2006-8)
• Stochastic Models for Yeast Prions (BBSRC 2006-)
• Tiger Conservation
• caOBNET: Objective Bayesian Nets for Integrating Cancer Knowledge (2006-)