Gregory Wheeler
- Professor of Philosophy & Computer Science, Frankfurt School
- g.wheeler@fs.de
- Co-Founder and Head of AI & Machine Learning, Exaloan AG
- gregory.wheeler@exaloan.com
I am Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science and Head of the Department of Computational Science & Philosophy at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, where I am also the Academic Director of the Master of Applied Data Science program. In addition, I co-founded Exaloan AG, a FinTech software company based in Frankfurt.
Research Interests: Probability, Bayesian Statistics, Machine Learning, Bounded Rationality, Decision & Game Theory
Research Interests: Probability, Bayesian Statistics, Machine Learning, Bounded Rationality, Decision & Game Theory
Recent Courses
- Computational Statistics & Probability [MSc: Fall 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021]
- Machine Learning I. [MSc: Spring 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019]
Publications
- Statistical Mechanics and Artificial Neural Networks: Principles, Models, and Applications (with Lucas Böttcher), in Yurij Holavatch (Ed), Order, Disorder, and Criticality: Advanced Problems of Phase Transition Theory World Scientific Press, to appear. [arXiv]
- Visualizing high-dimensional loss landscapes with Hessian directions (with Lucas Böttcher), Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 023401, 2024. [open access]
- Thomas Augustin, Fabio Cozman and Gregory Wheeler (Eds), Reflections on the Foundations of Probability and Statistics: Essays in Honor of Teddy Seidenfeld, Theory and Decision Library A, Springer, 2022.
- A Gentle Approach to Imprecise Probability, in Thomas Augustin, Fabio Cozman and Gregory Wheeler (Eds), Reflections on the Foundations of Probability and Statistics: Essays in Honor of Teddy Seidenfeld Theory and Decision Library A, Springer, 2022, pp. 37-67.
- Why Formal Objections to the Error Theory are Sound (with Christine Tiefensee), Analysis 82(4): 602-616, 2022. [preprint]
- Error, Consistency and Triviality (with Christine Tiefensee), Noûs 56(3): 602-618, 2022. [preprint]
- Changing Use of Formal Methods in Philosophy: Late 2000s vs. Late 2010s (with Samuel Fletcher, Joshua Knobe, and Brian Woodcock), Synthese 199: 14555–14576, 2021. [preprint]
- On the Imprecision of Full Conditional Probabilities (with Fabio Cozman), Synthese 199: 3761–3782, 2021. [preprint]
- Discounting Desirable Gambles, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 147: 331-341, 2021.
- Moving Beyond Sets of Probabilities, Statistical Science 36(2): 201--204, 2021. [preprint]
- Conditionals and Testimony (with Peter Collins, Karolina Krzyzanowska, Stephan Hartmann, and Ulrike Hahn), Cognitive Psychology 122, November 2020, 101329. [open access pdf]
- Less is More for Bayesians, Too. Routledge Handbook on Bounded Rationality, Riccardo Viale (Ed.). New York: Routledge, 2020. [preprint]
- Dilation and Asymmetric Relevance (with Arthur Paul Pedersen), Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 103: 324--326, 2019.
- Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 103, Jasper De Bock, Cassio P. de Campos, Gert de Cooman, Erik Quaeghebeur, and Gregory Wheeler (Eds). The 11th International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (ISIPTA 2019), 3-6 July 2019, Ghent, Belgium.
- Bounded Rationality, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Winter 2018 Edition.
- Resolving Peer Disagreements Through Imprecise Probabilities (wth Lee Elkin), Noûs 52(2): 260–94, 2018. [preprint]
- Machine Epistemology and Big Data, in Lee MacIntyre and Alex Rosenberg (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science, New York: Routledge, pp. 321-329, 2017. [preprint]
- Scoring Imprecise Credences: A Mildly Immodest Proposal (with Conor Mayo-Wilson), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 93(1):55-78, 2016. [preprint]
- Dilation, Distintegrations, and Delayed Decisions (with Arthur Paul Pedersen), Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications, Pescara, Italy: 227-236, 2015.
- Is there a Logic of Information?, Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 27(1), 95-98, 2015. [preprint]
- Epistemic Decision Theory's Reckoning (with Conor Mayo-Wilson), unpublished manuscript. [PhilSci Archive]
- Demystifying Dilation (with Paul Pedersen), Erkenntnis 79(6): 1305-1342, 2014. [preprint]
- Defeat Reconsidered and Repaired, The Reasoner 8(2), 15, 2014. [preprint]
- Character Matching and the Locke Pocket of Belief, Epistemology, Context, and Formalism, Franck Lihoreau and Manuel Rebuschi (Ed.), Dordrecht: The Synthese Library, Springer, pp. 185-94, 2014. [preprint]
- Coherence and Confirmation Through Causation (with Richard Scheines), Mind 122(435): 135-70, 2013. [preprint]
- Models, Models, and Models, Metaphilosophy 44(3): 293-300, 2013. [preprint]
- New Challenges for Philosophy of Science, Hanne Andersen, Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao González, Marcel Weber, and Gregory Wheeler (Eds.). Dordrecht: Springer, 2013.
- Logic for Lunatics, Choice and Inference, August 20, 2013.
- Objective Bayesian Calibration and the Problem of Non-convex Evidence, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 63(4): 841--850, 2012. [preprint]
- Belief Contraction Through Safe Formulas (with Viktoriia Kozyreva), Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Computer Science and Information Technologies, Hamburg - Ufa, Norwegian Fjords, 2012.
- Why the Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever Cannot be Solved in Less Than Three Questions (with Pedro Barahona), Journal of Philosophical Logic 41(1): 493-503, 2012. [preprint] * Featured in New Scientist, December 2012.
- Special Issue Commemorating Henry E. Kyburg, Jr. (co-edited with Horacio Arló-Costa), Synthese 186(2), 2012.
- Formal Epistemology, in The Continuum Companion to Epistemology, Andrew Cullison (Ed.), Bloomsbury: New York, 227-47, 2012. [preprint]
- Explaining the Limits of Olsson's Impossibility Result, The Southern Journal of Philosophy 50(1): 136-50, 2012. [preprint]
- Modeling of Phenomena and Dynamic Logic of Phenomena (with Boris Kovalerchuk and Leonid Perlovsky), Journal of Applied Non-classical Logics 22(1): 51-82, 2012. [preprint]
- NO Revision and NO Contraction (with Marco Alberti), Minds and Machines 21(3): 411-30, 2011. [preprint]
- Probabilistic Logics and Probabilistic Networks (with Rolf Haenni, Jan-Willem Romeijn and Jon Williamson). The Synthese Library, Springer, 2011.
- Evidential Probability and Objective Bayesian Epistemology (with Jon Williamson), in Prasanta S. Bandyopadhyay and Malcolm R. Forster (Eds.) Philosophy of Statistics, Elsevier Handbook, pp. 376-92, 2011.
- Focused Correlation, Confirmation, and the Jigsaw Puzzle of Variable Evidence (with Maximilian Schlosshauer), Philosophy of Science78(3): 376-92, 2011. [preprint]
- Causation, Association, and Confirmation (with Richard Scheines), in Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao González, Stephan Hartmann, Thomas Uebel, and Marcel Weber (Eds.) Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation: New Trends and Old Ones Reconsidered, Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 37-51, 2011.
- Editorial, Minds and Machines 21(1): 1-2, 2011. [preprint]
- Robustness of Evidential Probability (with Choh Man Teng), The 16th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Short Paper Proceedings, Dakar, Senegal, 2010.
- AGM Belief Revision in Monotone Modal Logics, The 16th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Short Paper Proceedings, Dakar, Senegal, 2010.
- Focused Correlation and Confirmation, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 60(1): 79-100, 2009. [preprint]
- Logical Relations in a Statistical Problem (with Jan-Wilem Romeijn, Rolf Haenni, and Jon Williamson), in Foundations of Formal Sciences VI, London: College Publications, pp. 49-79, 2009. [preprint]
- Special Issue on Combining Probability and Logic. (co-edited with Fabio Cozman, Rolf Haenni, Jan-Wilem Romeijn, and Jon Williamson), Journal of Applied Logic 7(2), 2009.
- Review of Hendricks and Symons's Formal Philosophy, Philosophy of Science 76(1): 113-5, 2009. [preprint]
- Possible Semantics for a Common Framework for Probabilistic Logic (with Rolf Haenni, Jan-Wilem Romeijn, and Jon Williamson), International Workshop on Interval Probabilitistic Reasoning and Non-Classical Logics (UncLog'08), Ishikawa Japan, Advances in Soft Computing Series, 286-79, 2008. [preprint]
- Applied Logic without Psychologism, Studia Logica 88(1): 137-56, 2008. [preprint]
- Special Issue on Formal and Computational Epistemology. (co-edited with Luís Moniz Pereira), Journal of Applied Logic 5(4), 2007.
- Probability and Inference: Essays in Honour of Henry E. Kyburg, Jr. William Harper and Gregory Wheeler (Eds.), London: College Publications, 2007.
- Conditionals and Consequences (with Henry E. Kyburg, Jr. and Choh Man Teng), Journal of Applied Logic 5(4): 638--50, 2007. [preprint]
- Two Puzzles Concerning Measures of Uncertainty and the Positive Boolean Connectives , 13th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2007), LNAI Series, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 170-80, 2007. [preprint]
- A Review of the Lottery Paradox, in Probability and Inference: Essays in Honour of Henry E. Kyburg, Jr. William Harper and Gregory Wheeler (Eds.), London: College Publications, pp.1-31, 2007. [preprint]
- Humanists and Scientists, The Reasoner 1(1): 3-4, 2007. [preprint]
- Rational Acceptance and Conjunctive/Disjunctive Absorption, Journal of Logic, Language and Information 15(1-2): 49-63, 2006. [preprint]
- On the Structure of Rational Acceptance: Comments on Hawthorne and Bovens, Synthese 144(2): 287-304, 2005. [preprint] * Reprinted in Knowledge, Rationality and Action, Wiebe van der Hoek (Ed.), Dordrecht: Springer, 117-34, 2006.
- Review of Hans Rott's Change, Choice, and Inference: A Study of Belief Revision and Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Philosophy of Science 72(3): 498-503, 2005. [preprint]
- The Paradoxes of Rational Acceptance and the Logic of Belief, in Lorenzo Magnani and Riccardo Dossena (Eds.), London: King's College Publications, pp. 417-32, 2005.
- Epistemology and Artificial Intelligence (with Luís Moniz Pereira), Journal of Applied Logic 2(4): 469-93, 2004. [preprint]
- Implementation of Statistical Default Logic (with Carlos Damásio), Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA 2004), José Alferes and Joāo Leite (Eds.), LNAI Series, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 121-33, 2004. 2(4): 469-93, 2004. [preprint]
- A Resource Bounded Default Logic, Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR 2004), James Delgrande and Torsten Schaub (Eds.), Whistler, British Columbia, 416-22, 2004. [preprint] * An abstract appears in The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, 10(3): 444, 2004.
- A Note on Epistemology and Logical Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Computational Models of Scientific Reasoning and Applications (CMSRA-III), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 207-22, 2003. * An expanded version appears in The Journal of Applied Logic, 2(4): 2004.
- Statistical Defaults and Paraconsistency, in ESSLLI Workshop on Paraconsistent Logic (ESSLLI 2001), Trento, Italy. CLE e-Prints 2(2), Campinas, Brazil, 2002.
- Kinds of Inconsistency, In Paraconsistency, Walter A. Carnielli, Marcelo E. Coniglio, and Italia Loffredo D'Ottaviano (Eds.), New York: Marcel Dekker, 511-22, 2002.
- Error Statistics and Duhem's Problem, Philosophy of Science 67(3): 410-20, 2000.
Erdös Number: 4