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D-Index
40
Citations
5371
World Ranking
5434
National Ranking
59

Overview

Igor Douven is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research spans multiple intersecting fields including Psychology, Arts and Humanities, and Computer Science, with a significant focus on subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and History and Philosophy of Science.

Their recent scholarly work includes publications in well-regarded journals, reflecting diverse topics within philosophy and cognitive science. Notable papers include:

  • Explaining the Success of Induction (2021, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science)
  • Mis- and disinformation in a bounded confidence model (2020, Artificial Intelligence)
  • Abductive conditionals as a test case for inferentialism (2020, Cognition)
  • Conceptual spaces and the strength of similarity-based arguments (2021, Cognition)
  • Network effects in a bounded confidence model (2022, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A)

Igor Douven's research addresses a range of topics related to epistemology, ethics, and metaphysics; philosophy and history of science; decision-making and behavioral economics; Bayesian modeling and causal inference; child and animal learning development; philosophy and theoretical science; and the psychology of moral and emotional judgment.

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Shira Elqayam
  • Karolina Krzyżanowska
  • Patricia Mirabile
  • Peter Gärdenfors
  • Steven Verheyen

Igor Douven's publications regularly appear in established venues such as:

  • Minds and Machines
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Cognition
  • Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
  • Frontiers in Psychology

They have also authored book work, including a publication with The MIT Press titled The Art of Abduction (2022), which has accumulated citations, indicating engagement with the academic community.

The breadth of Igor Douven's research integrates philosophical inquiry with empirical and computational methods, particularly evident in their contributions to artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, and the philosophy of science.

Best Publications

  • Assertion, Knowledge, and Rational Credibility

    Igor Douven

  • Rationality: a social-epistemology perspective

    Sylvia Wenmackers;Danny Eric Paul Vanpoucke;Igor Douven

  • Measuring coherence

    Igor Douven;Wouter Meijs

  • A Defence of van Fraassen’s Critique of Abductive Inference: Reply to Psillos

    James Ladyman;Igor Douven;Leon Horsten;Bas van Fraassen

  • Inference to the Best Explanation Made Coherent

    Igor Douven

  • Generalizing the lottery paradox

    Igor Douven;Timothy Williamson

  • A Bayesian perspective on Likert scales and central tendency.

    Igor Douven

  • Inference to the Best Explanation versus Bayes’s Rule in a Social Setting

    Igor Douven;Sylvia Wenmackers

  • Vagueness: A Conceptual Spaces Approach

    Igor Douven;Lieven Decock;Richard Dietz;Paul Égré

  • Inference to the Best Explanation, Dutch Books, and Inaccuracy Minimisation

    Igor Douven

  • Extending the Hegselmann-Krause Model I

    I.E.J. Douven;Alexander Riegler

  • Simulating peer disagreements

    I.E.J. Douven

  • Similarity After Goodman

    Lieven Decock;Igor Douven

  • A new solution to the paradoxes of rational acceptability

    Igor Douven

  • A new resolution of the Judy Benjamin problem

    Igor Douven;Jan-Willem Romeijn

  • Extending the Hegselmann–Krause Model III: From Single Beliefs to Complex Belief States

    Alexander Riegler;Igor Douven

  • The Art of Abduction

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  • Inferential Conditionals and Evidentiality

    K. Krzyżanowska;S. Wenmackers;I. Douven

  • The evidential support theory of conditionals

    Igor Douven

  • A Puzzle About Stalnaker’s Hypothesis

    Igor Douven;Richard Dietz

  • The Probabilities of Conditionals Revisited

    Igor Douven;Sara Verbrugge

  • Assertion, Moore, and Bayes

    Igor Douven

Frequent Co-Authors

David E. Over
David E. Over Durham University
Peter Gärdenfors
Peter Gärdenfors Lund University
Mike Oaksford
Mike Oaksford Birkbeck, University of London
Jonathan St. B. T. Evans
Jonathan St. B. T. Evans Plymouth University
Timothy Williamson
Timothy Williamson Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
James Ladyman
James Ladyman University of Bristol
Bas C. van Fraassen
Bas C. van Fraassen San Francisco State University

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