Deborah G. Mayo is an American

philosopher of science A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek th ...

and author. She is a professor emerita in the Department of Philosophy at

Virginia Tech Virginia Tech (formally the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and informally VT, or VPI) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. It also has educational facilities in six re ...

and holds a visiting appointment at the Center for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Science of the

London School of Economics The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public university, public research university located in London, England and a constituent college of the federal University of London. Founded in 1895 by Fabian Society members Sidn ...

Biography

Mayo graduated from

Clark University Clark University is a private research university in Worcester, Massachusetts. Founded in 1887 with a large endowment from its namesake Jonas Gilman Clark, a prominent businessman, Clark was one of the first modern research universities in the ...

with a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics in 1974. She received her PhD in Philosophy from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

in 1979, thesis title "Philosophy of Statistics". Mayo was a professor of philosophy at Virginia Tech from 1979 to 2016. She taught undergraduate and graduate courses, including introductory and advanced logic (meta-theory of logic and modal logic), the

scientific method The scientific method is an empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century (with notable practitioners in previous centuries; see the article history of scientific ...

and

philosophy of science Philosophy of science is a branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science. The central questions of this study concern what qualifies as science, the reliability of scientific theories, and the ult ...

. She also held academic positions and taught classes in the Department of Economics at Virginia Tech, and the Center for the Study of Science and Society. Her most recent research focuses on developing an account of experimental inference in science based upon statistical reasoning and the idea of learning from error.

Awards

In 1998, Mayo received the

Lakatos Award The Lakatos Award is given annually for an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science, widely interpreted. The contribution must be in the form of a monograph, co-authored or single-authored, and published in English during the previ ...

for her book ''Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge.'' The prize is awarded every year to recently published English contributions on the philosophy of science which is considered an outstanding work in the field. In 1997, Mayo received the Sturm Award for Excellence in Faculty Research, awarded by

Phi Beta Kappa The Phi Beta Kappa Society () is the oldest academic honor society in the United States, and the most prestigious, due in part to its long history and academic selectivity. Phi Beta Kappa aims to promote and advocate excellence in the liberal ...

. In July 2022, Mayo was inducted as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.

Published books

*''Acceptable Evidence: Science and Values in Risk Management'', co-edited with R.D. Hollander, Oxford University Press, 1994 * '' Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge'', University of Chicago Press, 1996. Hasok Chang, "Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge by Deborah Mayo (review)", ''The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science'', Vol. 48, No. 3 (Sep. 1997), pp. 455–459 * ''Error and Inference: Recent Exchanges on Experimental Reasoning, Reliability, and the Objectivity and Rationality of Science'', Cambridge University Press, 2010 * ''Statistical Inference as Severe Testing: How to Get Beyond the Statistics Wars'', Cambridge University Press, 2018

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