Collection
Indeterminacy and Underdetermination
From Aristotle’s puzzle about the indeterminacy of future contingents to Duhem and Quine’s observations about the underdetermination of theory by evidence, the concepts of indeterminacy and underdetermination have been a recurrent theme in philosophy. As well as a continued interest in classic problems, recent years have seen new applications of these notions in various research contexts.
This Topical Collection showcases recent work on indeterminacy and underdetermination from diverse branches of philosophy, including philosophy of language, logic, philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, ethics, metaethics, epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of computation. The collection aims to highlight the similarities and differences between the many manifestations of these phenomena so that insights and conceptual tools developed in each philosophical sub-discipline can stimulate research in the others.
Editors
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Mark Bowker
Mark Bowker is an MSCA Fellow at Lund University. His PhD in Philosophy was awarded in 2016 by the University of St Andrews. He has been a Lecturer in Philosophy at the New College of the Humanities and a Postdoctoral Fellow at LOGOS (University of Barcelona), University College Dublin, and the MCMP (LMU Munich). Mark is currently working on issues at the intersection of Philosophy and Psychology, particularly the relation between language, stereotypes, and prejudice.
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Maria Baghramian
Maria Baghramian is Full Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin and a Professor II at the Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo. She is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and of the Academia Europea. Her many publications range over the topics of relativism, pluralism, and the social epistemology of trust and expertise. She currently leads the European Commission Horizon 2020 project Policy, Expertise and Trust in Action (PERITIA).
