Research Output per year
Personal profile
Research
I work on philosophy of science, social epistemology, and formal epistemology. I am particularly interested in the social epistemology of science: how does the social structure of science contribute to (or detract from) its success?
Funding overview
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship: Research grant from the Leverhulme Trust for the project "Organising Science: The Social Epistemology of Scientists and Their Incentives". Total value (including matching funding from the Isaac Newton Trust): £162,000. September 2016 - January 2019.
NWO Vernieuwingsimpuls Veni: Research grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for the project "Understanding Statistical Biases in Peer Review". Total value: €250,000. February 2019 - January 2023.
Previous positions
Sep 2016 - Jan 2019: Research Fellow in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, with a secondary appointment (from Oct 2017) as Junior Research Fellow at St Edmund's College.
Education/Academic qualification
Philosophy, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
External positions
Postdoctoral fellow, University of Groningen
Feb 2019 → Jan 2023Keywords
- Philosophy of science
- Social structure of science
- Social epistemology
- Formal epistemology
- Decision theory
- Game theory
- Rational choice theory
- Epistemology
- Sociology of science
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peer review
Social Sciences
Incentives
Mathematics
Reward
Mathematics
Game
Mathematics
science
Social Sciences
triangulation
Social Sciences
Reproducibility
Mathematics
Triangulation
Mathematics
Network
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Research Output 2011 2019
Epistemic Diversity and Editor Decisions: A Statistical Matthew Effect
Heesen, R. & Romeijn, J-W., Sep 2019, In : Philosophers' Imprint. 19, 39, p. 1-20 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
editor
social attraction
Skew
reputation
Recommendations
Is Peer Review a Good Idea?
Heesen, R. & Bright, L. K., 3 Jul 2019, In : The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
peer review
social structure
evidence
confidence
incentive
Laat het oor niet hangen naar een televisiepresentator
Romeijn, J-W., Heesen, R. & Siebe, H., 27 Feb 2019, Sociale Vraagstukken.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Open Access
File
The Credit Incentive to Be a Maverick
Heesen, R., Aug 2019, In : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A. 76, p. 5-12 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Incentives
Reward
Likely
Credit
Maverick
Thomas Boyer-Kassem, Conor Mayo-Wilson, and Michael Weisberg, eds. Scientific Collaboration and Collective Knowledge: New Essays
Heesen, R., Jan 2019, In : Philosophy of Science. 86, 1, p. 192-198 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review