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  Adam Bales

Curriculum vitae

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Employment

Junior Research Fellow (Fellow under Title A) at St John's College, the University of Cambridge
2017-

Publications

Bad Apples and Broken Ladders: A Pragmatic Defence of Causal Decision Theory (PDF)
Australasian Journal of Philosophy (Forthcoming)


Supererogation and Sequence (PDF)(Published Version)

With Claire Benn
Synthese (Forthcoming)


The Rationally Supererogatory (PDF) (Published Version)
With Claire Benn
Mind (2020), Vol. 129, Issue: 515

Intentions and Instability: A Defence of Causal Decision Theory (PDF) (Published Version)
Philosophical Studies (2020), Vol. 177, Issue: 3

Decision-Theoretic Pluralism: Causation, Evidence, and Indeterminacy (PDF) (Published Version)
The Philosophical Quarterly (2018), Vol. 68, Issue: 273

Indeterminate Permissibility and Choiceworthy Options (PDF) (Published Version)
Philosophical Studies (2018), Vol. 175, Issue: 7
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Richness and Rationality: Causal Decision Theory and the WAR Argument (PDF) (Published Version)

Synthese (2017), Vol. 195, Issue: 1

The Pauper's Problem: Chance, Foreknowledge and Causal Decision Theory (PDF) (Published Version)
Philosophical Studies (2016), Vol. 173, Issue: 6

Decision Theory for Agents with Incomplete Preferences (PDF) (Published Version)
With Daniel Cohen and Toby Handfield
The Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2014), Vol. 92, Issue: 3

Small-Group Teaching

Supervising: Philosophy of Science 2 (Cambridge University)
2019

Supervising: Ethics 1a (Cambridge University)
2019

Writing for Non-Academic Markets

2019

Extended Essay: Rationality and Explanation
2019

Supervising: Philosophy of Science 1a (Cambridge University)
2017, 2018, 2019

Ethics/Metaphysics 1a discussion group (Cambridge University)
2015, 2016

Supervising: Philosophical Logic + Metaphysics and Epistemology (Cambridge University)
2015, 2016
 
Reality, Ethics, Beauty Tutorials (University of Sydney)
 2014

Practical Ethics Tutorials (University of Sydney)
2014

Philosophy: Life, Death, Morality Tutorials (Monash University)
2013
 
Philosophy: Life, Death, Morality Tutorials (Monash University)
2012
 
Philosophy: Logic Tutorials (Monash University)
2012

Lecturing and Unit Coordinating

The Philosophy of Causation (Cambridge University)
2019

Probability (philosophy of science), lecturer (Cambridge University)

2017, 2018, 2019

Practical Ethics, Unit Coordinator (Sydney University)
2014

Practical Ethics, Guest Lecturer (Sydney University)
2014

Philosophy: Logic, Guest Lecturer (Monash University)
2012


Teaching with Younger Students

Birth, Deaths, and Marriages (Summer School, Concord College)
2018. 2019

Decision Theory Tutor (in high schools via the Brilliant Club)
2015

Normative Ethics Tutor (Sutton Trust Sumer School, Cambridge University)
2015

Normative Ethics Tutor (Sixth-Form Humanities Residential, Trinity College, Cambridge University)
2015

Education

PhD (Philosophy) at Cambridge University
2014-2017

Master of Arts (Philosophy) at Monash University
2012-2013

Honours (Philosophy) at Monash University
2011

Bachelor of Arts (Philosophy) at Sydney University
2005-2008

Scholarships and Prizes

Participant in Cambridge-LMU Seed Grant (Cambridge University)
2019

Trinity College External Research Scholarship (Cambridge University)
2014-2017

Honourary Cambridge International Scholarship (Cambridge University)
2014-2017


School of Arts and Humanities Conference Grant (Cambridge University)

2017

Vice-Chancellor's Commendation for MA Thesis Excellence (Monash University)
2013

Faculty of Arts Best Thesis Award (Monash University)
2013

Dean's Sessional Commendation for Teaching (Monash University)
2013

Australian Postgraduate Award (Monash University)
2012-2013

Honours Study Assistance Scholarship (Monash University)
2011

Academic Service

Reviewer
Philosophical Studies, Philosophical Quarterly, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Dialectica, Erkenntnis, Synthese


Interviewer (St John's College)
2017
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Secretary (Cambridge Moral Sciences Club: Visiting Speaker Series)
2015-2016

Leaf Editor for Causal Decision Theory (PhilPapers)
2015-present

Workshop Co-organiser (Monash University Workshop on Decision, Agency and Time)
2012

Talks

Chance, Choice and Causal Decision Theory (Chance Encounters Conference)
2016


Decision Theory, Impossibility and Indeterminacy (Cambridge University Graduate Seminar)
2016

Decision-Theoretic Impossibility Proofs: An Impossibility Proof (Serious Metaphysics Group)
2015

Rationality and Evolutionary Debunking Arguments (Cambridge University Graduate Seminar)
2014

Everyone’s Irrational (Monash University Graduate Seminar)
2013

Newcomb's Neglected Question (La Trobe University Graduate Colloquium)
2012

Seller Beware: Organ Markets and Preference Change (Sydney University Graduate Colloquium)
2012

Deciding How to Decide (Monash University Graduate Seminar)
2012

Referees

Professor Richard Holton (Website)
Professor, Cambridge University
PhD Supervisor


Dr. Arif Ahmed (Website)
Reader, Cambridge University
Associate PhD Supervisor

Professor Toby Handfield (Website)
Professor, Monash University
M.A. Supervisor

Professor Alan Hájek (Website)
Professor, the Australian National University
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