Harvey Lederman (UT Austin) is the winner of the 2023 Epistemology Prize from the Marc Sanders Foundation.
Professor Lederman gained the prize for his paper, “Of Marbles and Matchsticks“. Right here’s the summary of the paper:
I current a brand new puzzle about selection underneath uncertainty for brokers with preferences that are delicate to a number of dimensions of outcomes in such a method as to be incomplete. In response, I develop a brand new idea of selection underneath uncertainty for incomplete preferences. I join the puzzle to central questions in epistemology concerning the nature of rational necessities, and ask whether or not it exhibits that it’s rationally required to have full preferences.
The prize committee, headed by Tamar Szabó Gendler (Yale), described the paper as a “masterful accomplishment” that “manages the troublesome activity of bridging the hole between formal and casual work on rationality and epistemology usually—presenting troublesome materials rigorously sufficient for exact formalization however doing so in a method that’s interesting even to the much less formally inclined amongst us.”
The prize is $5000 and publication of the paper in Oxford Studies in Epistemology.
You’ll be able to study extra concerning the prize, together with its previous winners, here.
