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Finnur Ulf Dellsén - Senior Lecturer (UK) - Associate Professor (USA)

Finnur Ulf Dellsén

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School of Humanities

Finnur Ulf Dellsén

Senior Lecturer (UK) - Associate Professor (USA)

Associate professor of philosophy

Location
Gimli / G-318
Phone
5254391 8667247
Email
fud [at] hi.is

Unit
Faculty of History and Philosophy

ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4989-4204

Published works

2019

Scientiﬁc Realism in the Wild: An Empirical Study of Seven Sciences and HPSPhilosophy of Science
Rational understanding: toward a probabilistic epistemology of acceptabilitySynthese
Should scientific realists embrace theoretical conservatism?Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Divergent Perspectives on Expert Disagreement: Preliminary Evidence from Climate Science, Climate Policy, Astrophysics, and Public OpinionEnvironmental Communication
The epistemic impact of theorizing: generation bias implies evaluation biasPhilosophical Studies

2018

Promotion as contrastive increase in expected fitPhilosophical Studies
The epistemic value of expert autonomyPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research
Beyond Explanation: Understanding as Dependency ModellingThe British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
Deductive Cogency, understanding, and acceptanceSynthese
Scientific Progress, Understanding, and Knowledge: Reply to ParkJournal for General Philosophy of Science
Understanding in epistemology and philosophy of science: a complicated relationshipMetascience
The heuristic conception of inference to the best explanationPhilosophical Studies
Best Explanations: New Essays on Inference to the Best ExplanationNotre Dame Philosophical Review
Scientific progress: Four accountsPhilosophy Compass

2017

Frá skoðunum til trúnaðar og aftur til bakaHugur
Certainty and Explanation in Descartes's Philosophy of ScienceHOPOS: Journal of the International Society for History and Philosophy of Science
Abductively Robust InferenceAnalysis
Reactionary Responses to the Bad Lot ObjectionStudies in History and Philosophy of Science
When Expert Disagreement Supports the ConsensusAustralasian Journal of Philosophy
A classic of Bayesian confirmation theoryMetascience
Ted Poston, Reason and Explanation: A Defense of Explanatory Coherentism, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 208 pp., €88.39 (Hardback), ISBN 9781137012258.Dialectica
The Beliefs and Intentions of Buridan's AssJournal of the American Philosophical Association

2016

There May Yet be Non-causal Explanations (of Particular Events)Journal for General Philosophy of Science
Gagnrýnin og vísindaleg hugsunSkírnir
Reconstructed EmpiricismActa Anal
Realism and the absence of rivalsSynthese
Understanding without Justification or BeliefRatio
Hlutdrægni í vísindumRitið
The Epistemic Significance of DisagreementThe Philosophical Quarterly
Scientific progress: Knowledge versus understandingStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A

2015

Tvö viðhorf til vísindalegrar þekkingar -- eða eitt?Ritið -- tímarit Hugvísindastofnunar
Explanatory Rivals and the Ultimate ArgumentTheoria

Keywords for Specialisation:

Philosophy of Science

Ethics of Science

20th Century Analytic Philosophy