Eric Winsberg

Eric Winsberg
Born (1968-02-04) February 4, 1968 (age 56)
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Chicago
Indiana University
Notable work Science in the Age of Computer Simulation
Philosophy and Climate Science
InstitutionsUniversity of South Florida University of Cambridge
ThesisSimulation and the Philosophy of Science: Computationally Intensive Studies of Complex Physical Systems (1999)
Doctoral advisorMichael Friedman
Main interests
Philosophy of science, Philosophy of physics, Climate Science

Eric Winsberg (born February 4, 1968) is an American philosopher who is a professor of philosophy at the University of South Florida.[1] From 2023 until 2027 he will hold a Global Professorship from the British Academy in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.[2] He is known for his research in philosophy of science, in particular the philosophy of climate science, and the philosophy of physics. He is especially interested in the role of computer simulations in the physical sciences. His work in the philosophy of climate science specifically relates to its application in science policy and ethics.[3] He was an early critic of many of the public health policies aimed at mitigating the Covid-19 pandemic, arguing that the quality of the science justifying these policies was poor or missing, and that many of the policies unnecessarily sacrificed the welfare of the young and the poor.[4][5][6][7] He also writes on truth and on scientific authorship.[1]

  1. ^ a b "USF :: Philosophy Department". Philosophy.usf.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-19.
  2. ^ "Global Professorships 2022". The British Academy. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
  3. ^ "F.A.Z.-Archiv: Suche" (in German). Faz.net. Retrieved 2018-12-19.
  4. ^ Schliesser, Eric (2020-03-23). "Climate and coronavirus: the science is not the same". New Statesman. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
  5. ^ "How Government Leaders Violated Their Epistemic Duties during the SARS-CoV-2 Crisis". Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. 2020-06-17. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
  6. ^ Harvard, Stephanie; Winsberg, Eric (2021-09-17). "Causal Inference, Moral Intuition, and Modeling in a Pandemic". Philosophy of Medicine. 2 (2). doi:10.5195/pom.2021.70. ISSN 2692-3963.
  7. ^ Moral Models: Crucial Decisions in the Age of Computer Simulation, retrieved 2022-12-06