Publications

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Eric Johannesson. Analyticity, Necessity and Belief : Aspects of two-dimensional semantics. PhD thesis, Stockholm University, 2017.

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

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

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

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

Selected talks

1. What’s wrong with ad hoc theory modifications?

• The Swedish Congress of Philosophy (Filosofidagarna), University of Gothenburg, Jun. 7–9, 2024.

2.  Why ChatGPT cannot learn to reason deductively.

• Philosophy Colloquium, Ashoka University, Mar. 27, 2023 

3. Quine's underdetermination thesis.

• The Swedish Congress of Philosophy (Filosofidagarna), Lund University, Jun. 10–12, 2022

4. 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

5. 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

6. Self-locating beliefs and the essential indexical.

• 2nd Diaphora workshop on the nature of representation, Stockholm University, May 17–18, 2017

Random observations

• 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