Dr Antony Eagle
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'Science tells us a lot about the world. But many of the conclusions scientists reach aren't supported by completely conclusive evidence; rather, we indirectly infer to the hypothesis that is the best explanation of the data we have. So how do we know what is concluded is true? How does inconclusive evidence still give us knowledge? And what is this notion of 'best explanation'? It was because I couldn't stop worrying at questions like these that I became a philosopher.'Antony Eagle's research focusses on metaphysics and the philosophy of science. He is especially interested in coming up with philosophically rigorous accounts of various fundamental notions in science, including chance and probability, causation, possibility, and laws of nature. He also works on issues in epistemology, especially confirmation theory and probabilistic ('Bayesian') epistemology, and on the philosophy of language.
He teaches all the papers in his areas of research interest, including the finals papers Knowledge and Reality, Philosophy of Logic and Language, and Philosophy of Science, and the first year papers in Logic and in General Philosophy, but he also teaches History of Philosophy from Descrates to Kant (especially Descartes, Locke, and Hume), and the Philosophy of Mathematics.
His PhD is from Princeton University, and he was an undergraduate at the University of Melbourne. He came to Exeter in 2004.
