Research

Publications

Eric Johannesson. Quine’s underdetermination thesis. Erkenntnis, 89(5):1903–1920, 2024

Eric Johannesson. The statistical riddle of induction. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 101(2):313–326, 2023

Eric Johannesson. Completeness also solves Carnap's problem. Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 11(4):192–198, 2022

Eric Johannesson. On the indispensability of theoretical terms and entities. Synthese, 200(136), 2022

Eric Johannesson. A posteriori necessities in one dimension. Linguistics and Philosophy, 44(1):141–151, 2021

Eric Johannesson. Classical versus Bayesian statistics. Philosophy of Science, 87(2):302–318, 2020 | preprint

Eric Johannesson. Realism and empirical equivalence. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 49(3):475–495, 2020

Eric Johannesson. Partial semantics for quantified modal logic. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 47(6):1049–1060, 2018

Eric Johannesson. Analyticity, necessity and belief : aspects of two-dimensional semantics. PhD thesis, Stockholm University, 2017

Eric Johannesson. Monty Hall-problemet. Filosofisk Tidskrift, (2), 2017 (postprint)

Eric Johannesson and Sara Packalén. The a priori-operator and the nesting problem. Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 5(3):169–176, 2016

Eric Johannesson. Finns det objektiva sannolikheter? Filosofisk Tidskrift, (2), 2015 (postprint)

Eric Johannesson. Goodmans induktionsproblem. Filosofisk Tidskrift, (4), 2014 (postprint)

Selected talks

“What’s wrong with ad hoc theory modifications?”: The Swedish Congress of Philosophy (Filosofidagarna), University of Gothenburg, Jun. 7–9, 2024

“Why ChatGPT cannot learn to reason deductively”: Philosophy Colloquium, Ashoka University, Mar. 27, 2023

“Quine's underdetermination thesis”: The Swedish Congress of Philosophy (Filosofidagarna), Lund University, Jun. 10–12, 2022

“Simplicity, probability and Ockham's razor: an impossibility result”: New ideas in mathematical philosophy: Paris-Stockholm logic meeting, École Normale Supérieure, Nov. 2–3, 2017

“When must one strengthen one's induction hypothesis?” (joint work with Anders Lundstedt): CLLAM seminar, Stockholm University, Jun. 2, 2017 | ECAP 9, LMU Munich, Aug. 21–26, 2017

“Self-locating beliefs and the essential indexical”: 2nd Diaphora workshop on the nature of representation, Stockholm University, May 17–18, 2017

Random observations

Simpson's paradox

The rational response to unexpected news from a reliable source

Median vs. Mean

A curious case of empirical refutation

On the rationality of buying lottery tickets

Determinism

Primitive recursion and tail recursion

Work in progress

Foundations of applied arithmetic