Ken Gemes is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London. His primary interests are

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and

philosophy of science Philosophy of science is a branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science. The central questions of this study concern what qualifies as science, the reliability of scientific theories, and the ult ...

Education and career

Gemes earned his PhD from the

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in 1990 with a dissertation in philosophy of science working with

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and

Wesley Salmon Wesley Charles Salmon (August 9, 1925 – April 22, 2001) was an American philosopher of science renowned for his work on the nature of scientific explanation. He also worked on confirmation theory, trying to explicate how probability theory vi ...

. He taught at

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for ten years before moving to Birkbeck in 2000.

Philosophical work

Gemes's work has covered a wide range of philosophical issues, from technical concerns of logical content to Nietzsche's account of philosophy as the "last manifestation of the ascetic ideal".

Selected publications

* ''The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche'', Ken Gemes and John Richardson, eds. Oxford University Press, 2013 *''Nietzsche on Freedom and Autonomy'', Ken Gemes and Simon May eds., Oxford University Press, 2009Jenkins, Mark P. (2010) ''Review of'' Nietzsche on Freedom and Autonomy, ''The Journal of Nietzsche Studies'', 40, no. 1 : 85-90 *Gemes, Ken (1992), Nietzsche's Critique of Truth, ''Philosophy and Phenomenological Research'', Vol. 52, No. 1, March 1992, pp. 47–65 *Gemes, Ken (1993), Hypothetico-Deductivism, Content, and the Natural Axiomatization of Theories, ''Philosophy of Science'', Vol. 60, No. 3 Sep., pp. 477–487 * "Hypothetico-deductivism, content, and the natural axiomatization of theories" in ''Philosophy of Science'', 1993 * "A new theory of content I: Basic content," in ''Journal of Philosophical Logic'', 1994 * "Hypothetico-deductivism: the current state of play; the criterion of empirical significance: endgame" in ''Erkenntnis'' 1998 * "Horwich, Hempel, and Hypothetico-Deductivism" in ''Philosophy of Science'', 1990 * "The indeterminacy thesis reformulated" ''Journal of Philosophy'', 1991 *" Verisimilitude and content" in ''Synthese'', 2007 * "The world in itself: Neither uniform nor physical" in ''Synthese'', 1987 * "Hypothetico-deductivism: incomplete but not hopeless," in ''Erkenntnis'' 2005 * "Content & Watkins's Account of Natural Axiomatizations" in Dialectica 2006 * "Naturalism and Value in Nietzsche" in ''Philosophy and Phenomenonological Research'', 2005 * "Schurz on hypothetico-deductivism" in ''Erkenntnis'', 1994 * "Inductive Skepticism and the Probability Calculus I: Popper and Jeffreys on Induction and the Probability of Law-Like Universal Generalizations" in Philosophy of Science 1997 *"Nihilism and the Affirmation of Life: A Review of and Dialogue with Bernard Reginster" in European Journal of Philosophy *"A refutation of global scepticism" in ''Analysis'' 2009 * "Bootstrapping and Content Parts" in ''Erkenntnis'' 2006 * "Irrelevance: Strengthening the Bayesian Requirements" in ''Synthese'', 2007 * "Nietzsche on free will, autonomy and the sovereign individual" in ''Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society'' 2006 * "Postmodernism's use and abuse of Nietzsche" in ''Philosophy and Phenomenological Research'' 2001 * "A new theory of content II: Model theory and some alternatives" Journal of Philosophical Logic 1997 * "Life's Perspectives" in The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche 2013

References

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