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Simon Huttegger

Simon Huttegger is Chancellor’s Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine, USA. He grew up in Austria and received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Salzburg in 2006. Before joining UC Irvine in 2008, Prof. Huttegger spent two years as a postdoc at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research near Vienna. His research interests lie in game and decision theory, philosophy of science, the foundations of probability, the theory of measurement, and the philosophy of biology. He is a co-editor of The Review of Symbolic Logic, serves on the Editorial Board of Games, and author of the book The Probabilistic Foundations of Rational Learning (Cambridge University Press, 2017).