I’m an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. Before that, I did my PhD at Berkeley, advised by Lara Buchak, John MacFarlane and Wesley Holliday. Before that, I was an undergraduate at Freie Universität Berlin.
I work on decision theory and formal epistemology. My dissertation was about decision theory for non-ideal agents. I have also written about the idea that we should assign higher probability to simpler hypotheses, reasoning with probability in natural language and accuracy arguments in an infinite setting.
In addition, I’m interested ethics and social choice theory and like to think about Goodman’s ‘New Riddle of Induction' (which I like to explain in very short words).
Send me an e-mail at sven.neth [at] pitt [dot] edu.
You can also find me here: PhilPeople, dept website, arXiv, orcid, PhilSci archive, GitHub.
Better Foundations for Subjective Probability
Australasian Journal for Philosophy, forthcoming. [preprint] [journal]
Rational Aversion to Information
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, forthcoming. [preprint] [journal] [talk]
A Dilemma for Solomonoff Prediction
Philosophy of Science 90 (2): 288-306, 2023. [journal] (open access)
Accuracy and Infinity: A Dilemma for Subjective Bayesians
with Mikayla Kelley
Synthese 201 (12): 1-14, 2023. [journal] (open access)
Social Choice with Changing Preferences: Representation Theorems and Long-Run Policies
with Kshitij Kulkarni
Presented at Workshop on Consequential Decision Making in Dynamic Environments, NeurIPS 2020. [arXiv]
Measuring Belief and Risk Attitude
Proceedings of TARK 2019, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 297: 354-364, 2019. [journal] (open access)
Chancy Modus Ponens
Analysis 79 (4): 632-638, 2019. [preprint] [journal]