Jon Williamson

1/3 Full house in Aula Baratto at Ca' Foscari University for Day 2 of #ENPOSS2025. Morning sessions include a symposium chaired by @mjbuedo.bsky.social on 'Pros and Cons of Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences'

Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · Sep 1

Online talk, 29 September. Jonathan Fuller (Pittsburgh). An argument framework for evidence synthesis and evidence-to-decision analysis. All welcome! jonwilliamson.uk/mosep

Manchester online seminars on Evidential Pluralism

Philosophy of Science, Medicine, AI and Law; Epistemology; Metaphysics; Logic

jonwilliamson.uk

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Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · Oct 15

Please circulate: we're hiring a postdoctoral research associate with expertise in philosophy of scientific method and philosophy of causality. Apply here: jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai.... A 2nd postdoc job, for someone with expertise in evidence review and research methods, coming soon.

Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · Jul 22

Many thanks to Jie Gao, Rosa Runhardt, Erik Weber and Michael Wilde for a very nice symposium on the book Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences. Both the book and most of the papers are available open access. link.springer.com/collections/... #philsky #philsci

Book Symposium: Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences (Yafeng Shan & Jon Williamson)

Evidential Pluralism in Social Sciences by Yafeng Shan and Jon Williamson. Routledge, 2023.In this book, Shan and Williamson contend that Evidential ...

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Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · Jul 10

21 July, 3-4.30pm. Rosa Runhardt (Radboud) & Jon Williamson (Manchester). Evidential Pluralism and educational ethnography. All welcome! jonwilliamson.uk/mosep

Manchester online seminars on Evidential Pluralism

Philosophy of Science, Medicine, AI and Law; Epistemology; Metaphysics; Logic

jonwilliamson.uk

Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · Jun 23

Online talk, 30 June. 3-4.30pm. Federica Russo (Utrecht). How is Who. Evidence as Clues for Action in Participatory Research Interventions. All welcome. jonwilliamson.uk/mosep

Manchester online seminars on Evidential Pluralism

Philosophy of Science, Medicine, AI and Law; Epistemology; Metaphysics; Logic

jonwilliamson.uk

Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · May 20

On 16 June, an online talk by Phyllis Illari (UCL). Epistemic games and causal problems: a framework for teaching the evaluation of scientific information. All welcome! jonwilliamson.uk/mosep

Manchester online seminars on Evidential Pluralism

Philosophy of Science, Medicine, AI and Law; Epistemology; Metaphysics; Logic

jonwilliamson.uk

Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · May 19

A nice introductory podcast on EBM+ by the UK Centre of Excellence on in-silico Regulatory Science and Innovation @afrangi.bsky.social : www.podbean.com/media/share/...

Unveiling Evidence-Based Medicine Plus and Mechanistic Reasoning

What is Evidence-Based Medicine Plus? This podcast episode explores the transformative power of computational modelling and simulated clinical trials in medical innovation. Discover the significance o...

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Reposted by Nicola J. Cooper, Ana Bastos, Baylor Fox‐Kemper , and 24 more Nicola J. Cooper, Ana Bastos, Baylor Fox‐Kemper, David P. Stevens, John J. Cullen, Matthias Doepke, Rafael H. M. Pereira, Lars Vilhuber, Jon Williamson, Vanesa Castán Broto, Markus Jäntti, Brian Medeiros, Rex Brynen, Michelle L. Mazurek, Mathew V. Kiang, Joseph A. McCartin, Kevin Miller, Jessica A. Gephart, Michiel van Meeteren, Marta Kołczyńska, Rense Nieuwenhuis, Oliver L. Haimson, Lukas Graf, Alexandra Cirone, Jae-Young Son, Colin Tucker Smith, Béatrice Cointe

Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Apr 25

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · Apr 10

That's a great question. Evidential Pluralism tries to show constructively that diverse evidence can be integrated in a coherent way in causal evaluation. A good example of how this works well in practice is the carcinogenicity evaluation procedure of IARC: monographs.iarc.who.int/iarc-monogra...

IARC Monographs Preamble – Preamble to the IARC Monographs (amended January 2019)

monographs.iarc.who.int

Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · Apr 10

Yes short arguments are often more secure. Nothing substantial written up I'm afraid, but I have some brief remarks at the end of this editorial riviste.unimi.it/index.php/th...

View of Editorial | The Reasoner

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Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · Apr 10

Plus, technical causal inferences often rest on unjustified modelling assumptions and tenuous presuppositions of the formal framework. Applied causal inferences can be more secure precisely because of their lack of technical sophistication.

Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · Apr 5

A very nice conference on the pros and cons of EBM: www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/event/eviden...

Evidence-Based Medicine Reconsidered - The Center for Philosophy of Science

Cathedral of Learning Rooms 1008 and 1117, 4200 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh PA, 15260 (In-person only) The evidence-based medicine (EBM) movement began in the 1980s, reached its peak perhaps in …

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Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · Apr 3

Some very welcome respite from trade wars: Progic 2025 at CMU www.cmu.edu/progic2025/h...

Home - Progic 2025 - The 12th Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic - Carnegie Mellon University

Summarize your website here; it will help search engines find and prioritize your content.

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Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · Mar 28

14 April, 3-4.30pm UK time. Online talk. Alexandra Trofimov (Manchester). *How Evidential Pluralism mitigates epistemic injustice in evidence-based evaluation*. All welcome! jonwilliamson.uk/mosep

Manchester online seminars on Evidential Pluralism

Philosophy of Science, Medicine, AI and Law; Epistemology; Metaphysics; Logic

jonwilliamson.uk

Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · Mar 7

A series of online talks on Evidential Pluralism - all welcome: jonwilliamson.uk/mosep

Manchester online seminars on Evidential Pluralism

Philosophy of Science, Medicine, AI and Law; Epistemology; Metaphysics; Logic

jonwilliamson.uk

Reposted by Jon Williamson

Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · Feb 25

AI is that drunk bloke who's always in the pub, jumping into other people's conversations and talking absolute bollocks.

Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · Feb 10

Perhaps it's possible to formalise evidence evaluation *and* combine different types of evidence. Here's a shameless plug for a recent paper that attempts this to some extent: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Applying evidential pluralism to evidence-based law: EBL+

Evidence-based law seeks to make best use of evidence to assess the effectiveness of laws and regulations. The question arises as to how exactly to make best use of evidence. This paper argues that...

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Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · Feb 7

Not humanities enough. Perhaps the aim of a medical humanities paper is to provide an interesting perspective or interpretation, while philosophy of medicine theorises about medicine in a more analytical or general way.

Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · Feb 7

I was told by someone working in medical humanities that philosophy of medicine doesn't qualify for medical humanities funding. I was a bit put out by this, but it does seem that most philosophy of medicine papers are different in kind from medical humanities papers.

Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · Jan 22

The Reasoner (an interdisciplinary gazette for research on reasoning, inference and method) has a new format: thereasoner.org

The Reasoner

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Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social · Jan 22

Newly published: Perspectives on Logics for Data-Driven Reasoning, edited by Hykel Hosni and Jürgen Landes. Springer, 2025. doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Perspectives on Logics for Data-driven Reasoning

Provides a state-of-the-art presentation of the role logic can have in making the most of the current opportunities, while making explicit the challenges

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Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · Jan 22

How should we evaluate whether a law is effective? We can't conduct blinded trials that randomise a law to individuals, so orthodox evidence-based evaluation methods fail. My colleague Alexandra Trofimov and I argue for an approach based on Evidential Pluralism: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Applying evidential pluralism to evidence-based law: EBL+

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Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · Dec 16

Just arriving on my first day of a new job at Manchester university. Very excited to be joining the philosophy department here.

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Ray Monk @raymodraco.bsky.social · Dec 11

If you protest against the destruction of our planet, you are more likely to be arrested in Britain than anywhere else in the world. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Britain leads the world in cracking down on climate activism, study finds

Research shows UK police arrest environmental and climate protesters at three times the average global rate

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · Dec 6

CMU is hosting the 2025 Progic Conference on combining probability and logic. This year's focus: Theoretical Approaches to Learning and Learnability

Deadline for abstracts is December 15. I cannot derive your probability of getting in, but you should submit anyway :)

www.cmu.edu/progic2025/c...

Call for Papers - Progic 2025 - The 12th Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic - Carnegie Mellon University

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Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · Nov 24

Please add me too

Jon Williamson @jonwilliamson.uk · Nov 23

Me too please!

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