I am a third-year Ph.D. student in Philosophy at the School of Arts and Sciences and a M.A. student in Statistics and Data Science at Wharton. I completed my undergraduate work in Philosophy and Poverty studies at Washington and Lee University in 2022 and spent a year as a visiting student at Oxford University.
Maximilian Gebauer
B.A. Philosophy, Washington and Lee University, Honors in Philosophy, magna cum laude
Research Interests
AOS: Philosophy of Science (general and statistics)AOC: Political, Environmental Ethics, Logic My primary research interests are in the philosophy of science from a broadly Bayesian approach. I research at the intersection of values in science and Bayesian inference, exploring the extent to which Bayesianism can avoid the apparent inevitability of value judgements seen in classical statistics and the novel ways it requires value judgements. I also research the development of statistical methods for the detection of questionable research practices (QRPs) in science and evaluating the prospects of formel modelling approaches to reason about interventions on these practices. Outside the philosophy of science I research the political dimensions of climate change with a particular focus on valuation methods for non-economic losses and damages (NELDs), modelling risk for impacted populations, and what is owed to people displaced by climate change.