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Aydin Mohseni

Senior Fellow

Ph.D. University of California, Irvine
M.S. Carnegie Mellon University

I am a philosopher of science, and (formal, social) epistemologist whose work is informed by game & decision theory and Bayesian statistics. My research concerns questions regarding how to assess improve scientific and statistical practices in the social and biomedical sciences, especially against the backdrop of concerns raised in light of the replication crisis and accompanying reform movements in those fields. I also do research on topics in AI ethics and safety, evolutionary game theory, and computational modeling.

My Erdös number is 3. (By way of Brian Skyrms to Perci Diaconis to Paul Erdös.)

Research Interests

Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of Statistics
Formal, Social Epistemology
 

Selected Publications

“The Tragedy of the AI Commons.” 2022 forthcoming. Synthese. (with Travis LaCroix)
“Truth and Conformity on Networks.” 2021. Erkenntnis 86(6), 1509-1530. (with Cole Williams)
“On the Emergence of Minority Disadvantage: Testing the Red King Hypothesis.” 2019. Synthese. (with Cailin O’Connor and Hannah Rubin)
 “Self-Assembling Networks.” 2019. British Journal of Philosophy of Science, 70(2), 301–325 (with Brian Skyrms and Jeffrey Barrett)
“Stochastic Stability and Disagreements Between Dynamics.” 2019. Philosophy of Science.