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University of Manchester: Manchester, GB

2024-12-16 to present | Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy (Philosophy department )
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Jon Williamson

University of Kent: Canterbury, Kent, GB

2005-09-01 to 2024-12-15 | Professor of Reasoning, Inference and Scientific Method (Philosophy)
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Individual consent in cluster randomised trials for non-pharmaceutical interventions: going beyond the Ottawa statement

Critical Public Health
2024-12-31 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/09581596.2024.2338074
Contributors: Marissa LeBlanc; Jon Williamson; Francesco De Pretis; Jürgen Landes; Elena Rocca
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Bayesianism from a philosophical perspective and its application to medicine

The International Journal of Biostatistics
2023-11-15 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1515/ijb-2022-0043
Contributors: Jon Williamson
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Direct Inference and Probabilistic Accounts of Induction

Journal for General Philosophy of Science
2023-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10838-021-09584-0
Contributors: Jon Williamson
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Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences

2023-04-16 | Book
DOI: 10.4324/9781003143000
Contributors: Yafeng Shan; Jon Williamson
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Calibration for Epistemic Causality

Erkenntnis
2021-08-17 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10670-019-00139-w
Contributors: Jon Williamson
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The Principal Principle, admissibility, and normal informal standards of what is reasonable

European Journal for Philosophy of Science
2021-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s13194-021-00352-x
Contributors: Jürgen Landes; Christian Wallmann; Jon Williamson
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The use of mechanistic reasoning in assessing coronavirus interventions

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
2021-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/jep.13438
Contributors: Jeffrey K. Aronson; Daniel Auker‐Howlett; Virginia Ghiara; Michael P. Kelly; Jon Williamson
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Establishing the teratogenicity of Zika and evaluating causal criteria

Synthese
2021-05-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-018-1866-9
Contributors: Jon Williamson
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The Principal Principle and subjective Bayesianism

European Journal for Philosophy of Science
2020-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s13194-019-0266-4
Contributors: Christian Wallmann; Jon Williamson
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Evidential Proximity, Independence, and the evaluation of carcinogenicity

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
2019-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/jep.13226
Contributors: Jon Williamson
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Intervention and Identifiability in Latent Variable Modelling

Minds and Machines
2018 | Journal article
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Jon Williamson

The use of evidence of mechanisms in drug approval

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
2018 | Journal article
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Jon Williamson

The use of mechanistic evidence in drug approval

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
2018-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/jep.12960
Contributors: Jeffrey K. Aronson; Adam La Caze; Michael P. Kelly; Veli‐Pekka Parkkinen; Jon Williamson
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Justifying the principle of indifference

European Journal for Philosophy of Science
2018-10-13 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s13194-018-0201-0
Contributors: Jon Williamson
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The principal principle implies the principle of indifference

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
2017 | Journal article
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Jon Williamson

Bayesianism and Information

2016 | Journal article
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Jon Williamson

Evidence and epistemic causality

Statistics and causality
2016 | Journal article
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Jon Williamson

Objective Bayesian nets from consistent datasets

AIP Conference Proceedings
2016 | Conference paper
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Jon Williamson

Special issue: Combining probability and logic

2016 | Other
DOI: 10.1016/j.jal.2015.09.009
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2-s2.0-84957039984
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Deliberation, judgement and the nature of evidence

Economics & Philosophy
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/S026626711400039X
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2-s2.0-84920908498
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Justifying objective bayesianism on predicate languages

Entropy
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/e17042459
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2-s2.0-84930067419
Contributors: Landes, J.; Williamson, J.
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Jon Williamson via Scopus - Elsevier

Maximum entropy applied to inductive logic and reasoning

Entropy
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/e17053458
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2-s2.0-84930074716
Contributors: Landes, J.; Williamson, J.
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Jon Williamson via Scopus - Elsevier

How uncertain do we need to be?

Erkenntnis
2014 | Journal article
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Jon Williamson

Mechanisms and the evidence hierarchy

Topoi
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s11245-013-9220-9
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2-s2.0-84926688310
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Modelling mechanisms with causal cycles

Synthese
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-013-0360-7
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2-s2.0-84897578469
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Foundations of Bayesianism

2013 | Other
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Jon Williamson

From Bayesian epistemology to inductive logic

Journal of Applied Logic
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jal.2013.03.006
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2-s2.0-84887118294
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How can causal explanations explain?

Erkenntnis
2013 | Journal article
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Jon Williamson

How Can Causal Explanations Explain?

Erkenntnis
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10670-013-9512-x
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2-s2.0-84891903653
Contributors: Williamson, J.
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Jon Williamson via Scopus - Elsevier

How Uncertain Do We Need to Be?

Erkenntnis
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10670-013-9516-6
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2-s2.0-84883175931
Contributors: Williamson, J.
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Jon Williamson via Scopus - Elsevier

In defence of activities

Journal for General Philosophy of Science
2013 | Journal article
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Jon Williamson

In Defence of Activities

Journal for General Philosophy of Science
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10838-013-9217-5
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2-s2.0-84883456220
Contributors: Illari, P.; Williamson, J.
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Jon Williamson via Scopus - Elsevier

Objective Bayesian Epistemology for Inductive Logic on Predicate Languages

2013 | Journal article
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Jon Williamson

Objective bayesianism and the maximum entropy principle

Entropy
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/e15093528
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2-s2.0-84885365797
Contributors: Landes, J.; Williamson, J.
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Jon Williamson via Scopus - Elsevier

Objective Bayesianism and the maximum entropy principle

Entropy
2013 | Journal article
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Jon Williamson

The evidence that evidence-based medicine omits

Preventive Medicine
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2012.10.020
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2-s2.0-84887818843
Contributors: Clarke, B.; Gillies, D.; Illari, P.; Russo, F.; Williamson, J.
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Jon Williamson via Scopus - Elsevier

The evidence that evidence-based medicine omits

Preventive medicine
2013 | Journal article
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Jon Williamson

Why frequentists and Bayesians need each other

Erkenntnis
2013 | Journal article
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Jon Williamson

Why Frequentists and Bayesians Need Each Other

Erkenntnis
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10670-011-9317-8
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2-s2.0-84876694357
Contributors: Williamson, J.
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Jon Williamson via Scopus - Elsevier

Calibration and convexity: response to Gregory Wheeler

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
2012 | Journal article
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Jon Williamson

Calibration and convexity: Response to Gregory Wheeler

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
2012 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/bjps/axs003
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2-s2.0-84869405319
Contributors: Williamson, J.
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Jon Williamson via Scopus - Elsevier

EnviroGenomarkers: the interplay between mechanisms and difference making in establishing causal claims

Medicine Studies
2012 | Journal article
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Jon Williamson

Reliable Reasoning, by Gilbert Harman and Sanjeev Kulkarni.

2012 | Other
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Jon Williamson

What is a mechanism? Thinking about mechanisms across the sciences

European Journal for Philosophy of Science
2012 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s13194-011-0038-2
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2-s2.0-84863512209
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Jon Williamson
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An objective Bayesian account of confirmation

Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation
2011 | Book chapter
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Jon Williamson

Causality in the Sciences

2011 | Other
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199574131.001.0001
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2-s2.0-84920182109
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Credal and Bayesian Networks

Probabilistic Logics and Probabilistic Networks
2011 | Book chapter
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Jon Williamson

Epistemic causality and evidence-based medicine

History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
2011 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84859774692
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Evidential probability and objective Bayesian epistemology

Philosophy of statistics, handbook of the philosophy of science
2011 | Journal article
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Jon Williamson

Evidential Probability and Objective Bayesian Epistemology

Philosophy of Statistics
2011 | Book
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-51862-0.50009-5
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2-s2.0-84876686066
Contributors: Wheeler, G.; Williamson, J.
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Jon Williamson via Scopus - Elsevier
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