I’m a Postdoctoral Associate in philosophy at Yale. Beginning in Fall 2025, I will be an Assistant Professor of philosophy at Indiana University, Bloomington. I completed my PhD in philosophy at the University of Michigan in 2024, where I was advised by Jim Joyce.

My current research is mostly in decision theory and epistemology, although it branches into topics in philosophy of language, metaphysics, ethics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of economics.

My email is: calum [dot] mcnamara [at] yale.edu.

Papers

Causal Decision Theory, Context, and Determinism, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2024

The Punctuated Equilibrium of Scientific Change: a Bayesian Network Model (with Patrick Grim, Frank Seidl, Isabell N. Astor, and Caroline Diaso), Synthese, 2022

Scientific Theories as Bayesian Nets: Structure and Evidence Sensitivity (with Patrick Grim, Frank Seidl, Isabell N. Astor, Caroline Diaso, and Peter Ryner), Philosophy of Science, 2022

Conference Proceedings

Dutch Books, Indicative Conditionals, and Rational Updating (with Snow Zhang), Proceedings of the 24th Annual Amsterdam Colloquium, 2024

Work in Progress

A paper on diachronic Dutch books (with Snow Zhang), under review

A paper on the Desire-as-Belief thesis, under review

A paper on updating on conditional information, under review

A paper on decision theory and expert deference, under review

A paper on self-recommending decision theories, under review

A paper on epistemic polarization (with Eduardo J. Martinez), under review

A paper on accuracy (with Mikayla Kelley, Richard Roth, and Snow Zhang—a.k.a. the Accu-vengers)

A paper on accuracy and updating (with Snow Zhang)

A paper on utilitarianism

Upcoming Teaching (Indiana)

Phil 105: Critical Reasoning (syllabus coming soon!)

Phil 350: Logic and Philosophy (syllabus coming soon!)

Current Teaching (Yale)

Phil 210/510: Formal Philosophical Methods (syllabus; hand-outs)

Past Teaching (Yale)

Phil 115: First-order Logic (syllabus)

Past Teaching (Michigan)

Phil 303: Introduction to Symbolic Logic (syllabus)