Gregory Wheeler (born 1968) is an American

logic Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the science of deductively valid inferences or of logical truths. It is a formal science investigating how conclusions follow from premise ...

ian, philosopher, and computer scientist, who specializes in

formal epistemology Formal epistemology uses formal methods from decision theory, logic, probability theory and computability theory to model and reason about issues of epistemological interest. Work in this area spans several academic fields, including philosophy, c ...

. Much of his work has focused on

imprecise probability Imprecise probability generalizes probability theory to allow for partial probability specifications, and is applicable when information is scarce, vague, or conflicting, in which case a unique probability distribution may be hard to identify. There ...

. He is currently Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, and has held positions at LMU Munich, Carnegie Mellon University, the

Max Planck Institute for Human Development The Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development (Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung) is an internationally renowned social science research organization. Located in Berlin, it was initiated in 1961 and officially began operations in 1963 ...

in Berlin, and the

New University of Lisbon NOVA University Lisbon ( pt, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, ), or just NOVA, is a Portuguese public university whose rectorate is located in Campolide, Lisbon. Founded in 1973, it is the newest of the public universities in the Portuguese capital ...

. He is a member of the PROGIC steering committee, the editorial boards of ''

Synthese ''Synthese'' () is a scholarly periodical specializing in papers in epistemology, methodology, and philosophy of science, and related issues. Its subject area is divided into four specialties, with a focus on the first three: (1) "epistemology, me ...

'', and ''

Minds and Machines ''Minds and Machines'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering artificial intelligence, philosophy, and cognitive science. The journal was established in 1991 with James Henry Fetzer as founding editor-in-chief. It was published by Kluwer A ...

'', and was the

editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...

of ''

'' from 2011 to 2016. In 2019 he co-founded Exaloan AG, a financial technology company based in Frankfurt. He obtained a

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is ...

in philosophy and computer science from the

University of Rochester The University of Rochester (U of R, UR, or U of Rochester) is a private university, private research university in Rochester, New York. The university grants Undergraduate education, undergraduate and graduate degrees, including Doctorate, do ...

under

Henry Kyburg Henry E. Kyburg Jr. (1928–2007) was Gideon Burbank Professor of Moral Philosophy and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rochester, New York, and Pace Eminent Scholar at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola, Fl ...

.AI, NLU, and KR at the University of Rochester
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Books

*''Reflections on the Foundations of Probability and Statistics: Essays in Honor of Teddy Seidenfeld'', Thomas Augustin, Fabio Cozman, and Gregory Wheeler (eds.) Springer, 2022 *''New Challenges to Philosophy of Science'',

Hanne Andersen Hanne Andersen (born 1964) is a Danish philosopher of science. She is a professor of science education at the University of Copenhagen, head of the Department of Science Education, and a member of the research group on history and philosophy o ...

, Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao Gonzalez, Marcel Weber and Gregory Wheeler (eds.) Springer, 2013. *''Probabilistic Logics and Probabilistic Networks'', Rolf Haenni, Jan-Willem Romeijn, Gregory Wheeler, and Jon Williamson. The Synthese Library, Springer, 2011. *''Probability and Inference: Essays in Honour of Henry E. Kyburg, Jr.'', William Harper and Gregory Wheeler (eds.), College Publications, 2007.

Articles

* "Discounting Desirable Gambles", ''Proceedings of Machine Learning Research'' 147: 336-346, 2021. * "Moving Beyond Sets of Probabilities", ''Statistical Science'' 36(2): 201-204, 2021. * "Less is More for Bayesians, Too", in Riccardo Viale (Ed.) ''Routledge Handbook on Bounded Rationality'', pp. 471–483, 2020. * "Dilation and Asymmetric Relevance" (w/ Arthur Paul Pedersen), ''Proceedings of Machine Learning Research'' 103: 324-26, 2019. * "Bounded Rationality", ''The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', Winter 2018 Edition. * "Resolving Peer Disagreements Through Imprecise Probabilities (w/ Lee Elkin), ''Nous'' 52(2): 260-94, 2018. * "Scoring Imprecise Credences: A Mildly Immodest Proposal" (w/ Conor Mayo-Wilson), ''Philosophy and Phenomenological Research'' 93(1): 55–78, 2016. * "Dilation, Disintegrations, and Delayed Decisions" (with Arthur Paul Pedersen), Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (ISIPTA 2015), Pescara, Italy: 227–236, 2015. * "Is there a Logic of Information?" ''Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence'' 27(1): 95–98, 2015. * "Demystifying Dilation" (with Arthur Paul Pedersen), ''Erkenntnis'', 79(6): 1305–1342, 2014. * "Defeat Reconsidered and Repaired", ''The Reasoner'', 8(2): 15, 2014. * "Character Matching and the Locke Pocket of Belief", ''Epistemology, Context, and Formalism'', Franck Lihoreau and Manuel Rebuschi (ed.), Dordrecht: The Synthese Library, Springer, pp. 185–94, 2014. * "Coherence and Confirmation Through Causation" (with Richard Scheines), ''Mind'', 122(435): 135–70, 2013. * "Models, Models, and Models", Metaphilosophy, 44(3): 293–300, 2013. * "Objective Bayesian Calibration and the Problem of Non-convex Evidence", ''The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science'', 63(4): 841–50, 2012. * "Why the Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever Cannot Be Solved In Less Than Three Questions" (with Pedro Barahona), ''Journal of Philosophical Logic'', 41(2): 493–503, 2012. * "Formal Epistemology", appearing in ''The Continuum Companion to Epistemology'', Andrew Cullison (ed.), Continuum Press, 227–47, 2012. * "Explaining the Limits of Olsson's Impossibility Result", ''The Southern Journal of Philosophy'' 50(1): 136–50, 2012. * "Modeling of Phenomena and Dynamic Logic of Phenomena" (with Boris Kovalerchuk and Leonid Perlovsky), ''Journal of Applied Non-classical Logics'', 22(1): 51–82, 2012. * "NO revision and NO contraction" (with Marco Alberti), ''Minds and Machines'', 21(3): 411–30, 2011. * "Focused Correlation, Confirmation, and the Jigsaw Puzzle of Variable Evidence" (with Max Schlosshauer), ''Philosophy of Science'', 78(3): 376–92, 2011. * "Evidential Probability and Objective Bayesian Epistemology" (with Jon Williamson), in Prasanta Bandyopadhyay and Malcom Forster (eds.) ''Handbook of the Philosophy of Statistics'', San Diego: North Holland Press, pp. 307–331, 2011. * "Causation, Association, and Confirmation" (with Richard Scheines), in ''Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation'', D. Dieks, W. J. Gonzalez, S. Hartmann, T. Uebel, M. Weber (eds.), The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective Series, Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 37–51, 2011. * "Focused Correlation and Confirmation", ''The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science'', 60(1): 79–100, 2009. * "Logical Relations in a Statistical Problem" (with Jan-Willem Romeijn, Rolf Haenni, and Jon Williamson), ''Foundations of the Formal Sciences'', College Publications, London, 2009. * "Methodological Naturalism and Epistemic Internalism" (with Luís Moniz Pereira), ''Synthese'', 163(3): 315–328, 2008. * "Applied Logic without Psychologism", Studia Logica, 88(1): 137–56, 2008. * "Possible Semantics for a Common Framework for Probabilistic Logic" (with Rolf Haenni, Jan-Willem Romeijn, and Jon Williamson), in V. N. Huynh (ed.) (UncLog‘08) ''International Workshop on Interval Probabilistic Uncertainty and Non-Classical Logics'', Ishikawa Japan, ''Advances in Soft Computing Series'', 268–79, 2008. * "Conditionals and Consequences", (with Henry Kyburg and Choh Man Teng), ''Journal of Applied Logic'', 5(4): 638–50, 2007. * "Two Puzzles Concerning Measures of Uncertainty and the Positive Boolean Connectives", 13th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2007), Guimaraes, Portugal, LNAI Series, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 170–80, 2007. * "Humanists and Scientists", ''The Reasoner'', 1(1): 3–4, 2007. * "Rational Acceptance and Conjunctive/Disjunctive Absorption", ''Journal of Logic, Language and Information'', 15(1–2): 49–63, 2006. * "On the Structure of Rational Acceptance: Comments on Hawthorne and Bovens", ''Synthese'', 144(2): 287–304, 2005. * "Epistemology and Artificial Intelligence" (with Luis Moniz Pereira), ''Journal of Applied Logic'', 2(4): 469–493, 2004. * "An implementation of Statistical Default Logic (with Carlos Damasio), in ''Logics in Artificial Intelligence'' (JELIA 2004 Proceedings), J. Alferes and J. Leite (eds.), LNCS Series, 121–33, 2004. * "A Resource Bounded Default Logic", NMR 2004 Proceedings, J. Delgrande and T. Schaub (eds.), 416–22, 2004.

References

External links

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Minds and Machines, edited by Wheeler
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