Why UCI, and logic and philosophy of science in particular?
Quite simply it has one of, if not the best, philosophy of science programs in the nation. Philosophers here take science seriously. I am interested in foundational questions in philosophy that have practical consequences for the way that science is conducted and that type of work is encouraged here. I was pursuing a graduate degree in clinical psychology and I became interested in research methods in clinical psychology. I was looking for a way to incorporate clinical knowledge with rigorous scientific methodology. The desire to study scientific methodology led me here. What type of research do you do? Randomized clinical trials form the bed rock of the evaluation of medical treatment. The current statistical procedures used to evaluate the data are predicated on the actual trial functioning exactly as it was designed. My research is concerned with what happens in practice and what statistical procedures should be used, given what actually happens in clinical trials (e.g. patients in
