Dr Jason Konek
BA(Wis.), MA(Mich.), PhD(Mich.)
Current positions
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
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Research interests
My research covers a range of topics in formal epistemology and decision theory. Over the past few years, I have been investigating the foundations and applications of epistemic utility theory. Epistemic utility theory aims to provide rigorous, decision-theoretic justifications for norms governing rational belief. It proceeds in two stages. Firstly, it pins down what is that makes one's beliefs epistemically valuable at a world, and proposes "epistemic utility functions" that measure this sort of value. Secondly, it uses the machinery of decision theory to show that certain epistemic norms are a better means to the end of epistemic value than others. Some of my work in epistemic utility theory focuses on foundational issues, e.g., sorting out why we should measure epistemic utility using "strictly proper scoring rules." Other work focuses on applications, e.g., using epistemic utility theory to help elucidate the nature of probabilistic knowledge, or to shed light on our epistemic reasons for adopting imprecise credences.
Positions
University of Bristol positions
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Epistemic Utility for Imprecise Probability
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of PhilosophyDates
01/02/2020 to 31/01/2025
Thesis supervisions
Doxastic Dispositions
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
26/11/2019Believing Probabilistic Contents
Analysis
Comparative Probabilities
The Open Handbook of Formal Epistemology
The Art of Learning
Oxford Studies in Epistemology
The Foundations of Epistemic Decision Theory
Mind
Probabilistic Knowledge and Cognitive Ability
Philosophical Review