Deborah Mayo

Deborah G. Mayo is an American academic and author. She is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Virginia Tech. She holds a visiting appointment at the Center for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Science of the London School of Economics.^[1]

Biography

She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979. Her most recent research consists of developing an account of experimental inference in science based upon statistical reasoning and the idea of learning from error. Mayo teaches an introductory and advanced logic (including the meta-theory of logic and modal logic), and other courses such as scientific method and philosophy of science. She also teaches special topic courses in Science and Technology.^[1]

Career

Mayo co-edited with R.D. Hollander, Acceptable Evidence: Science and Values in Risk Management.

Mayo wrote Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge in 1996.^[2]

In 2010, Mayo's most recent work was published, "Error and inference: Recent Exchanges on Experimental Reasoning".

Awards

In 1998, Mayo was awarded the Lakatos Award for her book Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge.^[1] The award is given every year for a contribution to the philosophy of science which is understood as outstanding work. The book must be in English published during the previous six years.

Published books

• Acceptable Evidence: Science and Values in Risk Management, co-edited with R.D. Hollander, New York: Oxford University Press, 1994
• Experimental Knowledge, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
• Error and Inference: Recent Exchanges on Experimental Reasoning, Reliability, and the Objectivity and Rationality of Science, Cambridge University Press, 2010

See also

• List of female philosophers

References

External links

• All of Deborah G. Mayo's published work
• Presentation slides by Deborah G. Mayo
• London School of Economics: Deborah Mayo page