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Olav Benjamin Vassend

Associate Professor

Email: olav.vassend@inn.no
Phone number: +47 62 43 01 72
Mobile number: +65 9777 3013

Inland School of Business and Social Sciences
Department of Law
Campus Lillehammer

Short description

Olav Benjamin Vassend joined INN as an associate professor of philosophy in 2022. Previously, he was an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore for five years, and prior to that he received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin--Madison. He has wide-ranging interests, but most of his published work is in formal epistemology, general philosophy of science, philosophy of statistics, and decision theory. For more information, please see his website.

Research groups

Philosophy

Vassend, Olav Benjamin (2023). What hinge epistemology and Bayesian epistemology can learn from each other. Asian Journal of Philosophy. ISSN 2731-4642. 2(2). doi: 10.1007/s44204-023-00104-z.
Vassend, Olav Benjamin (2023). On the Ecological and Internal Rationality of Bayesian Updating and Other Belief Updating Strategies. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. ISSN 0007-0882. doi: 10.1086/724447.
Vassend, Olav Benjamin (2023). Sometimes it is better to do nothing: A new argument for causal decision theory. Ergo - An Open Access Journal of Philosophy. ISSN 2330-4014. doi: 10.3998/ergo.3594. Full text in Research Archive
Vassend, Olav Benjamin (2022). Justifying the Norms of Inductive Inference . British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. ISSN 0007-0882. 73(2), p. 135–160. doi: 10.1093/bjps/axz041. Full text in Research Archive
Vassend, Olav Benjamin (2021). Why change your beliefs rather than your desires? Two puzzles. Analysis. ISSN 0003-2638. 81(2), p. 275–281.
Vassend, Olav Benjamin (2020). A Verisimilitude Framework for Inductive Inference, with an Application to Phylogenetics. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. ISSN 0007-0882. 71(4), p. 1359–1383.
Vassend, Olav Benjamin (2019). Confirmation and the Ordinal Equivalence Thesis. Synthese. ISSN 0039-7857. 196(3), p. 1079–1095.
Vassend, Olav Benjamin (2019). New Semantics for Bayesian Inference: The Interpretive Problem and Its Solutions. Philosophy of Science. ISSN 0031-8248. 86(4), p. 696–718.
Vassend, Olav Benjamin; Sober, Elliott & Fitelson, Branden (2018). The Philosophical Significance of Stein's Paradox. European Journal for Philosophy of Science. ISSN 1879-4912. 71(3), p. 411–433.
Vassend, Olav Benjamin (2018). Goals and the Informativeness of Prior Probabilities. Erkenntnis: An International Journal of Scientific Philosophy. ISSN 0165-0106. 83(4), p. 647–670.
Vassend, Olav Benjamin (2018). Comment: The Inferential Information Criterion from a Bayesian Point of View. Sociological methodology. ISSN 0081-1750. 48(1), p. 91–97.
Vassend, Olav Benjamin & Castro, Clinton (2018). Ideal Counterpart Theorizing and the Accuracy Argument for Probabilism. Analysis. ISSN 0003-2638. 78(2), p. 207–216.
Vassend, Olav Benjamin (2015). Confirmation Measures and Sensitivity. Philosophy of Science. ISSN 0031-8248. 82(5), p. 892–904.

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Vassend, Olav Benjamin (2021). Review of 'Bayesian Philosophy of Science' by Sprenger and Hartmann. Erkenntnis: An International Journal of Scientific Philosophy. ISSN 0165-0106.

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Postal Address

Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
Postboks 400 Vestad
2418 Elverum
Norway