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I am a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University. I am also an Associate Editor for the Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

Before 2024 I was a Research Fellow / Senior Research Fellow in the Dianoia Institute of Philosophy at ACU. Before that, I was a postdoc at the University of Notre Dame and Managing Editor for Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. I received my Ph.D.  from the Philosophy Department at Notre Dame, with a graduate minor in History and Philosophy of Science. I also have an M.A. in Philosophy from Western Michigan University and a B.A. in Humanities and Peace & Conflict Studies from Messiah University.

My research focuses on epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of religion. I have published articles on the nature of knowledge, the nature of probability, the use of probability in historical reasoning, Bayesian measures of confirmation, inference to the best explanation, causal inference, the use of intuitions in philosophy, non-textual narrative in art, divine providence and human free will, and the problem of evil. In a current book project, I defend a form of infallibilism about knowledge, according to which we know all and only those propositions that are certain for us. I see knowledge, so understood, as playing a foundational role in determining the rationality of belief and credence, in that we ought to be confident in a given proposition to the extent that it is made probable by what we know. Some other current projects explore the relation of epistemic and physical probability and the role of simplicity in the assignment of probabilities.

I can be reached at nevinclimenhaga[at]proton.me.