Daniel J. Hicks, PhD

First, some news: starting this fall, I will be an assistant professor in the Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences at the University of California, Merced. I wrote the bulk of this post on May 26, the day after the 9th annual Conference on Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology... [Read More]

A new paper by Manuela Fernández Pinto and me, “Legitimizing Values in Regulatory Science,” has just been published in Environmental Health Perspectives. This paper will be of interest to philosophers of science as well as the environmental public health community. [Read More]

Machine learning (ML) algorithms have become widely adopted over the past decade. Contemporary ML can achieve near-human levels of accuracy, but operates as an inscrutable “black box.” This has stimulated significant research in methods to explain the behavior of ML systems. However, many of the proposed methods violate a common... [Read More]

Here are the slides for my talk at the Philosophy of Science Association meeting this past weekend in Seattle: Why Baier? Feminism, Trust, and Power [Read More]

This morning I added a new feature to the blog posts: an R script that automatically generates and applies tags, allowing users to find old posts on (potentially, roughly) similar topics. Because of some difficulties setting up a chronological archive, I was worried old posts would be lost down the... [Read More]