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Teaching PhD Supervision • Seamus Bradley: Determinism and Inaccurate Models (Grant from the Luxemburg Government; in process). • Foad Dizadji-Bahmani: Probability and Reductionism in Statistical Mechanics (LSE Studentship; in process). • Stanislav Larski: Simplicity in Model Selection: Formal Methods and Scientific Realism (LSE Studentship; in progress). • Bengt Autzen: Probability in Evolutionary Biology (AHRC and Cogito Foundation; in process). • Sheldon Steed: Otto Neurath's Positivism (Stapley Scholarship and LSE studentship, in process). • Jeremy Howick: The Methodology Randomised Clinical Trials (LSE studentship, awarded July 2008). • Peter Ainsworth: The Structure of Scientific Theories (AHRC PhD Scholarship, awarded April 2008). • Matteo Morganti: Quantum Mechanics and Ontology (AHRC PhD Scholarship, awarded November 2007). • Gabriele Contessa: Models as Fictional Entities (Jacobsen Fellowship, awarded July 2007). Graduate • Supervision of masters dissertations (approximately 20). • ‘Representation in 19th Century Physics’ (one term, joint seminar of UCL and LSE) (once). • ‘Fiction and Fictionalism’ (seminar, one entire academic year, University of Barcelona) (once). • ‘Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics’ (lecture and seminar, one term) (three times). • ‘Philosophical Foundations of Statistical Mechanics’ (lecture and seminar, one term) (twice). • ‘Philosophy of Science and Scientific Method’ (lecture and seminar, two terms) (three times). • ‘Philosophy of Science’ (lecture and seminar, one term) (once). • ‘Theories, Models, and Representation’ (lecture and seminar, one term) (three times). • ‘Darwin Versus Design: The Struggle between Evolutionary Theory and Religious Viewpoints’ (lecture and seminar, half term) (once). • Research Seminar on the foundations of statistical inference (one term, with Stephan Hartmann) (once). • Research Seminar on fictionalism (one term, with Stephan Hartmann) (once). • Research Seminar on the interpretation of probability (one term, with Mikós Rédei) (once). • Research Seminar on information theory (one term, joint seminar of IC, UCL, and LSE) (once). • Research Seminar on the history of field theory (one term, IC, UCL, and LSE) (once). • Research Seminar with students presenting their projects. (one term) (four times). Undergraduate • Supervision of 3rd year undergraduate dissertations (approximately 20). • ‘Theories, Models, and Representation’ (lecture, one term) (three times). • ‘Darwin Versus Design: The Struggle between Evolutionary Theory and Religious Viewpoints’ (lecture and seminar, half term) (once). • ‘Philosophy of Science and Scientific Method’ (lecture, two terms) (once). • ‘Philosophy of Science and Scientific Method’ (lecture, two terms) (three times). • ‘Philosophy of Science’ (seminar, one term) (twice).
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