Somayeh Tohidi

I'm a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics (LSE). I'll be spending the 23/24 Academic Year at MIT as a pre-doctoral fellow in the philosophy and linguistics department. 

My core research interests are in formal social epistemology and decision theory. I explore the norms of updating upon statistical evidence for a bounded Bayesian agent and the implication of these norms for their beliefs and credences towards social stereotypes. At the current stage, I call my project "Statistical Evidence with a Humane Face". 

In the future, I want to explore how critical social theory can contribute to the scientific study of society by enriching the context of discovery for behavioral social scientists and helping them develop better and more stable social causal theories.

I received an M.A. in Islam and the West from Middlesex University, an M.A. in philosophy from Simon Fraser University and a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology.

In the past, I co-organized the Choice Group at LSE.

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Email: s.tohidi [at] lse.ac.uk

Twitter: @SomayehTohidi