Cailin O'Connor

I’m a philosopher of social and behavioral science, philosopher of science, and evolutionary game theorist. I am a Chancellor’s Professor in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at UC Irvine. My central research areas are misinformation and other epistemic dysfunction, scientific communities, and discriminatory conventions and norms.

Recent Research

Confirmation Bias and Group Learning: an Agent Based Model

Agent-Based Modeling for Research on Groups, Networks, and Organizations, forthcoming

Why Natural Social Contracts are Not Fair

New Social Contract Theory, forthcoming

Are Widely Known Findings Easier to Retract?

Philosophy of Science, forthcoming

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Books

Games in the Philosophy of Biology

Cambridge University Press (Elements series), 2020

Modeling Scientific Communities

Cambridge University Press (Elements series), 2023

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