Bio

Leah Henderson is a professor in works in the Department of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Her areas of research expertise are philosophy of science and epistemology. Dr. Henderson started her career as a physicist; she completed a DPhil in theoretical physics specialising in quantum information theory at the University of Oxford, and then worked as a post-doc in Bristol in the UK. She also holds a PhD in philosophy from MIT. Since 2015, she has been at the University of Groningen as a Rosalind Franklin Fellow.

Research Interests

Much of Dr. Henderson’s work is concerned with general topics in philosophy of science, such as the relationship between inference to the best explanation and Bayesianism. She is engaged in a project funded by the Dutch Science Foundation which concerns the reliability of sources of information, including scientific experts on issues such as climate change. She also has research interests in policy-making informed by science.

Selected Publications

Henderson, L. (2017). Bayesianism and Inference to the Best Explanation: the case of individual vs group selection in biology. In Best Explanations: new essays on Inference to the Best Explanation, pp. 248-262, Oxford University Press, edited by Ted Poston and Kevin McCain.

Henderson, L. (2017). The No Miracles Argument and the Base Rate Fallacy. Synthese 194 (4), pp. 1295-1302.

Henderson, L. (2013). Bayesianism and Inference to the Best Explanation. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 65, pp. 687-715.

Henderson,L., N.D. Goodman, J.B. Tenenbaum & J.F. Woodward (2010). The Structure and Dynamics of Scientific Theories: A Hierarchical Bayesian Perspective, Philosophy of Science 77 (2), pp. 172-200.