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According to Wikipedia, Eric Winsberg is an American philosopher who is a professor of philosophy at the University of South Florida. From 2023 until 2027 he will hold a Global Professorship from the British Academy in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He is known for his research in philosophy of science, in particular the philosophy of climate science, and the philosophy of physics. He is especially interested in the role of computer simulations in the physical sciences. His work in the philosophy of climate science specifically relates to its application in science policy and ethics. He was an early critic of many of the public health policies aimed at mitigating the Covid-19 pandemic, arguing that the quality of the science justifying these policies was poor or missing, and that many of the policies unnecessarily sacrificed the welfare of the young and the poor. He also writes on truth and on scientific authorship.

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Eric Winsberg's Published Works

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A tale of two methods (2009) (472)
Science in the Age of Computer Simulation (2010) (410)
Simulated Experiments: Methodology for a Virtual World (2003) (318)
The Dappled World (2000) (244)
Sanctioning Models: The Epistemology of Simulation (1999) (230)
Holism, entrenchment, and the future of climate model pluralism (2010) (141)
Simulations, Models, and Theories: Complex Physical Systems and Their Representations (2001) (140)
Values and Uncertainties in the Predictions of Global Climate Models (2012) (98)
Computer Simulation and the Philosophy of Science (2009) (97)
Models of Success Versus the Success of Models: Reliability without Truth (2006) (82)
Confirmation via Analogue Simulation: What Dumb Holes Could Tell Us about Gravity (2015) (75)
Philosophy and Climate Science (2018) (71)
Value judgements and the estimation of uncertainty in climate modeling (2010) (69)
Can Conditioning on the “Past Hypothesis” Militate Against the Reversibility Objections?* (2004) (66)
Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (2010) (45)
Handshaking Your Way to the Top: Simulation at the Nanoscale (2006) (42)
Accountability and values in radically collaborative research. (2014) (40)
Values and evidence: how models make a difference (2018) (35)
Quantum Life: Interaction, Entanglement, and Separation (2003) (32)
Hawking radiation and analogue experiments: A Bayesian analysis (2015) (30)
Laws and chances in statistical mechanics (2008) (29)
How Government Leaders Violated Their Epistemic Duties During the SARS-CoV-2 Crisis (2020) (23)
Laws and Statistical Mechanics (2004) (20)
The adventures of climate science in the sweet land of idle arguments (2016) (15)
What does robustness teach us in climate science: a re-appraisal (2018) (14)
Severe weather event attribution: Why values won't go away. (2020) (14)
Bumps on the Road to Here (from Eternity) (2012) (13)
The Hierarchy of Models in Simulation (1999) (12)
Holism and Entrenchment in Climate Model Validation (2011) (11)
Climate Modelling: Philosophical and Conceptual Issues (2018) (9)
Confirmation via Analogue Simulation: A Bayesian Analysis (2015) (8)
Communicating Uncertainty to Policymakers: The Ineliminable Role of Values (2018) (8)
Value judgments in a COVID-19 vaccination model: A case study in the need for public involvement in health-oriented modelling (2021) (8)
Deflationism, Pragmatism, and Metaphysics (2015) (6)
Purposes and duties in scientific modelling (2022) (5)
An antidote for hawkmoths: on the prevalence of structural chaos in non-linear modeling (2017) (5)
Missing the Forest for the Fish: How Much Does the ‘Hawkmoth Effect’ Threaten the Viability of Climate Projections? (2016) (4)
This Paper Attacks a Strawman but the Strawman Wins: A reply to van Basshuysen and White (2021) (4)
A Modest Defense of Geoengineering Research: a Case Study in the Cost of Learning (2021) (3)
Causal Inference, Moral Intuition, and Modeling in a Pandemic (2021) (3)
The Metaphysical Foundations of Statistical Mechanics: on the status of PROB and PH (2010) (3)
Reliability without Truth (2010) (3)
The Epistemic Risk in Representation (2022) (3)
The Diversity of Philosophy Students and Faculty (2021) (2)
Putting races on the ontological map: a close look at Spencer’s ‘new biologism’ of race (2019) (2)
Methodology for a Virtual World (2010) (2)
Nancy Cartwright: The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science (2000) (1)
TWO. Sanctioning Models: Theories and Their Scope (2019) (1)
Models and Theories at the Nano-scale (2009) (1)
A modest defense of geoengineering research (2019) (1)
Book Reviews (2003) (1)
An antidote for hawkmoths: on the prevalence of structural chaos in non-linear modeling (2019) (1)
SIX. Models of Climate: Values and Uncertainties (2019) (1)
Who is responsible for global health inequalities after Covid-19? (2022) (1)
An antidote for hawkmoths: a response to recent climate-skeptical arguments grounded in the topology of dynamical systems (2017) (0)
Is Simulation an Epistemic Substitute for Experimentation? Draft under Review Draft under Review Draft under Review (2010) (0)
10. Selection, Drift, and the “Forces” of Evolution Selection, Drift, and the “Forces” of Evolution (pp. 550-570) (2004) (0)
Contributors (1996) (0)
FIVE. When Theories Shake Hands (2019) (0)
Simulation Model Skill in Cosmology. (2020) (0)
Dissertation: A Natural Case for Realism: Processes, Structures, and Laws (February 27 th , 2015) (2015) (0)
Values and evidence: how models make a difference (2017) (0)
Introduction to the Special Issue on Philosophy and Climate Science (2015) (0)
Editor's Note, March 2022 (2022) (0)
Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow: Attitudes De se and De motu (2021) (0)
What does robustness teach us in climate science: a re-appraisal (2018) (0)
VALUES AND EVIDENCE IN MODEL-BASED CLIMATE FORECASTING (2018) (0)
Introduction to the Special Issue on Philosophy and Climate Science (2015) (0)
Lawless Territory (2009) (0)
Uncertainty and Risk in the Predictions of Global Climate Models. (Invited) (2009) (0)
Success and Scientific Realism (2017) (0)
When Theories Shake Hands (2010) (0)
Wittgenstein, Finitism, and the Foundations of Mathematics. Mathieu Marion (2000) (0)
Can Models Have Skill? (2020) (0)
1. Preface Preface (p. vii) (2004) (0)
Contributors (1996) (0)
Patient and Public Involvement in Health Economics Modelling Raises the Need for Normative Guidance. (2023) (0)

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