Office Hours 2022W, term 1:

• Phil 321: M 1-2pm in person, W 1-2pm via Zoom
• Phil 369: M 1-2pm in person, W 2-3pm via Zoom
• Email paul.bartha@ubc.ca for zoom link
• Additional office hours available by appointment

Logic, Decision Theory, Philosophy of Science. I work mainly in philosophy of science and decision theory, with particular attention to issues surrounding probability and confirmation. My current research relates to analogical reasoning (following up on my book, By Parallel Reasoning: The Construction and Evaluation of Analogical Arguments, Oxford University Press, 2010) and to precautionary reasoning, especially decisions about the environment.

Presentations

• “Decisions in Branching Time” Monash University, July 2012
• “What Can We Learn From Analogies in Mathematics?” Humanities and Social Sciences Unit, California Institute of Technology, March 2011; University of Toronto Department of Philosophy, April 2011; University of Washington Department of Philosophy, April 2011

• “Analogy and Analogical Reasoning“, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, forthcoming, Edward N. Zalta, ed.
• “Many Gods, Many Wagers: Pascal’s Wager Meets the Replicator Dynamics” in Probability in the Philosophy of Religion, ed. J. Chandler and V. S. Harrison, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012)
• By Parallel Reasoning: The Construction and Evaluation of Analogical Arguments (Oxford University Press, 2010)
• “Taking Stock of Infinite Value: Pascal’s Wager and Relative Utilities“, Synthese 154 (2007), 5-52
• “Countable Additivity and the de Finetti lottery“, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 55 (2004), 301-321

Teaching Materials

• Interpretations of Probability (lecture material)

• Undergraduate Majors Advisor
• Chair of Undergraduate Studies