Dr Jacob Stegenga

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Ext. Director of Studies
Reader in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Biography

Jacob Stegenga is a Reader in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He has published widely on fundamental topics in reasoning and rationality and philosophical problems in medicine and biology. Prior to joining Cambridge he taught in the United States and Canada, and he received his PhD from the University of California San Diego. He is the author of Medical Nihilism and Care and Cure: An Introduction to Philosophy of Medicine, and he is currently writing a book on the sciences of sexual desire.


Research

Research interests

Philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, philosophy of medicine

Selected publications

For a complete list of publications, please see my Academia.edu site.

Medical Nihilism, Oxford University Press, 2018

Care and Cure: An Introduction to Philosophy of Medicine, University of Chicago Press, 2018

'Three Arguments for Absolute Outcome Measures' (with Jan Sprenger), forthcoming, Philosophy of Science

'Population Pluralism and Natural Selection', The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 2016 67: 1–29

'Measuring Effectiveness', Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 2015 54: 62–71

'Probabilizing the End', Philosophical Studies 2013 165: 95–112

'Is Meta-Analysis the Platinum Standard of Evidence?', Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 2011 42: 497–507


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