Deborah Mayo

Education

She received her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979.

Career

She is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Virginia Technology She holds a visiting appointment at the Center for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Science of the London School of Economics. Her most recent research consists of developing an account of experimental inference in science based upon statistical reasoning and the idea of learning from error.

Mayo teaches an introductory and advanced logic (including the meta-theory of logic and modal logic), and other courses such as scientific method and philosophy of science.

She also teaches special topic courses in Science and Technology. Mayo co-edited with Rural Delivery Hollander, Acceptable Evidence: Science and Values in Risk Management.

Mayo wrote Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge in 1996. In 2010, Mayo"s most recent work was published, "Error and inference: Recent Exchanges on Experimental Reasoning".

Achievements

• In 1998, Mayo was awarded the Lakatos Award for her book The Error and the Growth of experimental Knowledge. The award is given every year for a contribution to the philosophy of science which is understood as outstanding work. The book must be in English published during the previous six years.