The Department of Philosophy would like to welcome its newest faculty member, Ben Eva

Duke Philosophy welcomes new faculty member, Benjamin Eva

This Fall, Benjamin Eva will join Duke University's Department of Philosophy as its newest Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Ben completed his PhD in Philosophy at the University of Bristol. He subsequently completed a one-year postdoc at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy/LMU Center for Advanced Studies and in 2017, he received an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship, joining the University of Konstanz from 2017 to 2019. His main research interests are in the philosophy of science, epistemology and the theoretical foundations of cognitive science and artificial intelligence research. In the past, his research especially focused on the foundations of probabilistic reasoning and causal inference.