I like having a student-run bar,
because it keeps it friendly and cheap!
Dr Jacob Stegenga
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
Spotlights
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Dr Tobias Wauer
It’s 8pm and I’m about to start a 12-hour shift at the national COVID-19 testing centre in Milton Keynes. Truckloads of boxes with transparent plastic bags just arrived and a brief announcement is made: 15,000 patient swabs. For now, the mood among the team is cheerful and enthusiastic, but I know it will have morphed into exhaustion and fatigue by the end of the night.