Gregory Wheeler is Senior Research Scientist and Executive Board Member of the Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENTRIA), New University of Lisbon, Portugal, and Lecturer in Computational Logic. He holds a joint PhD in Philosophy and Computer Science from the University of Rochester, and has been a research scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in Pensacola, Florida, a guest lecturer and researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Institute at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany, and an occasional visiting scholar at the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University, USA.

 

editorial positions

• Member of the editorial board for Philosophy of Science in Europe, a Springer book series.
• PhilPapers area editor for:
  Probabilistic Frameworks
  Dempster-Shafer Theory
  Plausibility Theory
  Probability and AI
• Member of the editorial board of The Reasoner.

publications

forthcoming

• Gregory Wheeler, "Formal Epistemology", in Cullison, A. (ed.), Companion to Epistemology. Continuum Press.
• Essays Commemorating Henry E. Kyburg, Jr. Special issue of Synthese , Horacio Arló-Costa and Gregory Wheeler, guest editors.
  Contributors: tba
• Gregory Wheeler. “A good year for imprecise probability”, PhiBook: 2007 Yearbook of Philosophical Logic , Vincent Hendricks, (ed.), Automatic Press.
• Gregory Wheeler and Jon Williamson. "Evidential Probability and Objective Bayesian Epistemology", to appear in Prasanta Bandyopadhyay and Malcom Forster (eds.) Handbook of the Philosophy of Statistics, North Holland: Elsevier.
• Probabilistic Logic and Probabilistic Networks
  Rolf Haenni, Jan-Willem Romeyn, Gregory Wheeler, and Jon Williamson.
  Dordrecht: The Synthese Library, Springer.
  Available soon.

2009

• Jan-Willem Romeijn, Rolf Haenni, Gregory Wheeler, and Jon Williamson, (2009). "Logical Relations in a Statistical Problem", Foundations of the Formal Sciences, College Publications, London.
• Gregory Wheeler, (2009). “Focused Correlation and Confirmation”, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science , 60(1): 79-100.
• Fabio Cozman, Rolf Haenni-Sola, Jan-Willem Romeijn, Gregory Wheeler, and Jon WIlliamson, (2009). “Introduction to the special issue on Combining Probability and Logic”, The Journal of Applied Logic, 7(2): 131--135.
  Contributors: Cassio de Campos, Fabio Gagliardi Cozman, José Eduardo Ochao Luna, Rolf Haenni, Colin Howson, Bert Leuridan, Niki Pfeifer, Gernot D. Kleiter, K. S. Ng, John W. Lloyd, and Jan Springer.
• Gregory Wheeler, (2009): "Review of Formal Philosophy (Automatic Press, 2005)", Philosophy of Science , 76(1): 112-115.

2008

• Gregory Wheeler and Luís Moniz Pereira, (2008)."Methodological Naturalism and Epistemic Internalism", Synthese, 163(3): 315-328.
  
• Rolf Haenni, Jan-Willem Romeijn, Gregory Wheeler, and Jon Williamson, (2008). “Possible Semantics for a Common Framework for Probabilistic Logic”, in V. N. Huynh (ed.) (UncLog‘08) International Workshop on Interval Probabilistic Uncertainty and Non-Classical Logics, Ishikawa Japan, Advances in Soft Computing Series, 268-279.
• Gregory Wheeler, (2008). "Applied Logic without Psychologism", Studia Logica, 88(1): 137-156.

2007

• Henry E. Kyburg, Choh Man Teng and Gregory Wheeler, (2007). "Conditionals and Consequences", The Journal of Applied Logic, 5(4): 638-650.
• Gregory Wheeler, (2007). "Two puzzles concerning measures of uncertainty and the positive Boolean connectives'', 13th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2007), Guimaraes, Portugal, LNAI Series, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 170-180.
  
• Probability and Inference: Essays in Honour of Henry E. Kyburg, Jr.
  Edited by William Harper and Gregory Wheeler. London: College Publications, 2007.
  Contributors: Gert de Cooman and Enrique Miranda, Clark Glymour, William Harper, Isaac Levi, Ron Loui, John Pollock, Teddy Seidenfeld, Choh Man Teng, Mariam Thalos, Gregory Wheeler, Jon Williamson, and Henry E. Kyburg, Jr.
  Available from Amazon.uk or Amazon.com.
• Gregory Wheeler, (2007). "A Review of the Lottery Paradox", in William Harper and Gregory Wheeler (eds.) Probability and Inference, King's College Publications, 1-33.
• Luís Moniz Pereira and Gregory Wheeler, (2007). “Introduction to the special issue on formal and computational epistemology”, The Journal of Applied Logic, 5(4).
  Contributors: Ray Jennings and D.X. Nicholson, Pierangelo Dell'Acqua and Luís Moniz Pereira, Hans Lycke, Eric Pacuit. James Hawthorne, Henry E. Kyburg, Choh Man Teng, and Gregory Wheeler.
• Gregory Wheeler, (2007). “Humanists and Scientists”, The Reasoner, 1(1).

2006

• Gregory Wheeler, (2006). "Rational Acceptance and Conjunctive/Disjunctive Absorption", Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 15(1-2): 49-63.
• Gregory Wheeler, (2006). Reprint of "On the Structure of Rational Acceptance" in Wiebe van der Hoek (ed.), Knowledge, Rationality and Action , Dordrecht: Springer, 117-134, 2006.

2005

• Gregory Wheeler, (2005). "On the Structure of Rational Acceptance: Comments on Hawthorne and Bovens", Synthese, 144(2): 287-304.
• Gregory Wheeler, (2005). “Review of Hans Rott's Change, Choice and Inference: A Study of Belief Revision and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001)", Philosophy of Science, 72(3): 498-503.
• Gregory Wheeler (2005). "The Paradoxes of Rational Acceptance and the Logic of Belief", in Lorenzo Magnani and Riccardo Dossena (eds.) Computing, Philosophy and Cognition, London: King's College Publications, 417-432.

2004

• Gregory Wheeler and Luís Moniz Pereira, (2004). "Epistemology and Artificial Intelligence", The Journal of Applied Logic, 2(4): 469-493.
• Gregory Wheeler and Carlos Damásio, (2004). "An implementation of statistical default logic", in José Alferes and João Leite (eds.) Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA 2004 ), LNCS Series, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 121-133.
• Gregory Wheeler, (2004). "A Resource Bounded Default Logic", in James Delgrande and Torsten Schaub (eds.) Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR-04), Whistler, British Columbia, 416-422.
  ----- An abstract of “A Resource Bounded Default Logic, in The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, 10(3): 444, 2004.
• Gregory Wheeler and Luís Moniz Pereira, 2003. "A Note on Epistemology and Logical Artificial Intelligence" (with Luís Moniz Pereira), in Claudio Delrieux and Javier Legris (eds.) Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Computational Models of Scientific Reasoning and Applications (CMSRA-III), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 207-222, 2003.
  ----- An expanded version appears in The Journal of Applied Logic, 2(4): 2004.

2002

• Gregory Wheeler, (2002). "Statistical defaults and paraconsistency", ESSLLI 2002 (Trento) Workshop on Paraconsistent Logic, CLE e-Prints, vol. 2(2), Campinas, Brazil. ISSN 1519-9681.
• Gregory Wheeler, (2002). "Kinds of Inconsistency", in Walter A. Carnielli, Marcelo E. Coniglio, Italia Loffredo D'Ottaviano (eds.) Paraconsistency , New York: Marcel Dekker, 511-522.

2000

• Gregory Wheeler, (2000). "Error Statistics and Duhem's Problem", Philosophy of Science, 67(3): 410-420.

updated November 11, 2009