Department of Philosophy Detroit, MI 48202 (313) 577-2537 (office) (313) 577-2077 (fax) email: susan.vineberg@wayne.edu Education Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Logic and the Methodology of Science, 1992. Dissertation: Conditionalization and Rational Belief Change Committee: Professors Ernest Adams (Chair), Charles Chihara, and Elisabeth Lloyd. B.A. University of California, Berkeley, Mathematics and Philosophy (High Honors), 1982. Employment : 1991-present, tenured and promoted to Associate Professor of Philosophy, 2000. Oberlin College: 1993-1994, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Publications "Eliminative Induction and Bayesian Confirmation Theory", Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 26, June 1996: 257-66. "Confirmation and the Indispensability of Mathematics to Science", Philosophy of Science, Supplement to volume 63, and Sept. 1996: S256-S263. "Dutch Books, Dutch Strategies and What They Show About Rationality", Philosophical Studies, vol. 86, May 1997: 185-201. "Indispensability Arguments and Scientific Reasoning", Taiwanese Journal for Philosophy and the History of Science, no. 10, 1998: 117-140. "Coherence and Epistemic Rationality", Proceedings of the 20th World Congress of Philosophy, http://www.bu.edu/wcp, 1999.
"Mayo's Error Statistical Account of Scientific Inference", in Logic Probability and Science, Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Rodopi 2000. "The Logical Status of Conditionalization and its Role in Confirmation", in Logic Probability and Science, Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Rodopi, 2000. "The Representational Use of Mathematics and Indispensability Arguments", New Studies in Exact Philosophy: Logic, Mathematics, and Science, Brown and Woods (eds.) Hermes Science Publishers, 2001. "The Notion of Consistency for Partial Belief", Philosophical Studies, vol. 201: 281-296, 2001. "Dutch Book Argument", entry in Routledge Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Science, 2005. "Proof and Explanation in Mathematics", Logica Yearbook 2006. "Is Indispensability Still a Problem for Fictionalism?", Journal of Protosociology, 2008. Republished in "Is Indispensability Still a Problem for Fictionalism?, reprinted in Philosophy of Mathematics: Set Theory, Measuring Theories, and Nominalism, Gerhard Preyer, Georg Peter (Eds.), Ontos Verlag, 2008. "Paradoxes of Probability", in Philosophy of Statistics, edited by Bandyopadhyay, and Forster, Elsevier, forthcoming. "Dutch Book Arguments", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Book Reviews Review of More Precisely: The Math You Need The Math You Need to Do Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, forthcoming. Review of Paul Weirch's, Decision Space, Philosophy of Science, 2005. Review of George and Velleman's Philosophies of Mathematics, Philosophical Books, July 2004. 2
Some Recent Talks Beauty's Cautionary Tale, (a) Conference on Formal Epistemology, UC Berkeley, May 2004. (b) University of Buffalo, Oct. 2004. (c) Society for Exact Philosophy, Toronto, May 2005. Is Indispensability Still a Problem for Fictionalism?, Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, Boston, Dec. 2004. The Role of Dutch Book Arguments in Probabilistic Epistemology, Prague International Colloquium, Conference on Dutch Books, Prague, August, 2005. Proof and Explanation in Mathematics (a) Department of Mathematics,, March 2005. (b) Society for Exact Philosophy, May 2006. Ramsey s Definition of Degree of Belief, HOPOS Conference, Paris, June 2006. Aspects of Mathematical Explanation, Logica Conference, Czech Republic, June 2006. Mathematical Explanation and Ontology, Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Dec. 2006. The Success of Ramsey s Dutch Book Argument, The Society for Exact Philosophy, Vancouver, May 2007. Aspects of Mathematical Explanation, The Eighth Annual Midwest Philosophy of Math Workshop, Oct. 2007, University of Notre Dame. Two Kinds of Mathematical Explanation Society for Exact Philosophy, Presidential Address, May 2009. The Bayesian Approach to Scientific Theories, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing China, June 2009. Two Kinds of Explanation in Mathematics and Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing China, June 2009. Subjectivism in the Philosophy of Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing China, June 2009. Rational Theory Choice, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing China, June 2009. 3
Awards, Fellowships and Grants Phi Beta Kappa (UC Berkeley 1982) University Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 1983-84 Research Grant, 1992, 1995, 2001 Liberal Arts Research and Inquiry Grant, 1999 Career Development Chair, 2003 Humanities Center Fellows Grant 2006 Elected Professional Service President Society for Exact Philosophy 2008-10 Vice President Society for Exact Philosophy 2006-8 Professional Memberships American Philosophical Association Philosophy of Science Association Society for Exact Philosophy NEH Seminars Attended Seminar on the Concept of Evidence, conducted by Larry Laudan, University of Hawaii, 1994. Seminar on Philosophy of Experimental Inference: Induction, Reliability and Error, conducted by Deborah Mayo, Virginia Tech, 1999. Seminar on the Philosophy of Mathematics Today, conducted by Colin McLarty and David Corfield, Case Western Reserve University, 1999. Courses Taught Philosophy of Science Philosophy of Mathematics Probability and Decision Seminar on Probabilism Seminar on Mathematical Explanation Seminar on Mathematical Fictionalism Seminar on Bayesianism Seminar on Bayesian Epistemology Seminar on Scientific Reasoning Seminar on Rationality Modal Logic Elementary Logic and Oberlin College Oberlin College and Oberlin College 4
Advanced Symbolic Logic Logical Systems Critical Thinking Analysis of Reasoning Introduction to Philosophy Various individual reading courses Oberlin College and Oberlin College Professional Service Referee for The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Erkenntnis, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, European Journal for Philosophy of Science, Nous, Philosophy of Science, Review of Symbolic Logic, Synthese, and others. Paper Referee for various conferences Manuscript and Textbook reviewer for major publishers Departmental Service Graduate Placement Committee Chair Graduate Admissions Chair Hiring Committee Chair, Colloquia, Budget, Exam, Library, Promotion and Tenure and various other Departmental Committees. Ph.D. and Master's Dissertation Committees, Department of Philosophy. University Service Undergraduate Research Council Humanities Center Advisory Board President's Commission on the Status of Women Career Development Chair Award Committee Other Organizer for the Philosophy of Mathematics Working Group at 5