Calum McNamara

Calum is a fifth-year graduate student in philosophy. He works mostly in decision theory, epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of language, and has complementary interests in ethics, logic, philosophy of economics, and philosophy of science. In his dissertation, Calum is thinking about the interaction between theories of conditionals, on the one hand, and theories of rational belief and choice, on the other. For example, he's been developing a contextualist version of causal decision theory. And he's also been thinking about how you should update your degrees of belief when you learn a piece of conditional information. (Check out his website for more about his research projects.)

Calum was born in Canada, and grew up partly there, and partly in the UK. Before coming to Ann Arbor, he received his BA in philosophy from King's College London, in 2018.