Core Research Projects

Current research projects engage in the following areas of research:

  • the nature of causality and the connections between probabilities and causes;
  • objectivity and evidence in natural and social scientific theories;
  • the contribution of Darwinian theory to our understanding of human nature and behaviour;
  • the foundations of effective decision-making, where values, politics, science and technology meet;
  • the theory and practice of voting power;
  • the foundations of quantum mechanics and quantum information theory;
  • the role of probability in science
  • the application of modelling techniques to questions of philosophical interest;
  • transfers of methods between scientific disciplines and the practical and theoretical problems involved in such transfers.