Short Bio
Martin Justin a PhD student at the University of Maribor, Slovenia. His research interests are in philosophy of science and epistemology. Currently, he is working on higher-order evidence and using computer simulations to study science. His PhD thesis is jointly supervised by Dunja Šešelja and Borut Trpin (Ljubljana/Maribor). Additionally, he acts as an editorial assistant at the journal Acta Analytica (Springer).
Publications
2025
- Trpin, Borut and Justin, Martin (2025). Coherence as a Constraint on Scientific Inquiry. Synthese, v. 206, pp. 200.
- Justin, Martin and Šešelja, Dunja and Straßer, Christian and Trpin, Borut (2025). The Mix Matters: Exploring the Interplay Between Epistemic and Zetetic Norms in Scientific Disagreement. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
- Justin, Martin (2025). More Hope For Conciliationism. Episteme.
2025
- Trpin, Borut and Justin, Martin (2025). Coherence as a Constraint on Scientific Inquiry. Synthese, v. 206, pp. 200.
- Justin, Martin and Šešelja, Dunja and Straßer, Christian and Trpin, Borut (2025). The Mix Matters: Exploring the Interplay Between Epistemic and Zetetic Norms in Scientific Disagreement. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
- Justin, Martin (2025). More Hope For Conciliationism. Episteme.
Talks
- Higher-Order Evidence in Non-Ideal Epistemology, Theoretical Rationality and Practical Reason at Sofia, Bulgaria, May 2026
- Zombie Hypotheses in Science, Perspectives on Scientific Error 8 at Leiden, The Netherlands, Feb 2026
- Neurath’s Bet on Random Allocation of Research Funding, The Legacy of the Vienna Circle a Century On at Maribor, Slovenia, Dec 2025
- Industry Bias and Zombie Hypotheses in Biomedical Science, Philosophy Students’ Symposium 2025 at Maribor, Slovenia, Nov 2025
- Industry Sponsorship Bias as Higher-Order Evidence: An Agent-Based Exploration, EPSA 2025 at Groningen, The Netherlands, Aug 2025
- Is Higher-Order Evidence Predictably Misleading?, Bled Philosophy Conference 2025 at Bled, Slovenia, Jun 2025
- Coherence, Belief Updating, and Epistemic Luck: A Computational Exploration, Nenad In Our Minds at University of Maribor, Slovenia, May 2025
- Coherence, Belief Updating, and Epistemic Luck: A Computational Exploration, The Legacy of Nenad’s Philosophical Thought at University of Rijeka, Croatia, Apr 2025
- More Hope for Conciliationism, Big Mistake! Big! HUGE! at University of Milan, Italy, Mar 2025
- Coherence as a Filter for Misleading Information: An Agent-Based Exploration, Formal Models of Scientific Inquiry at University of Bochum, Germany, Jan 2025
- Is Higher-Order Evidence Predictably Misleading?, Philosophy Students’ Symposium 2024 at University of Maribor, Slovenia, Nov 2024
- The Value of Social Coherence in Science: An Agent-Based-Modelling Exploration, Methodological Trends in Contemporary Philosophy at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Oct 2024
- Norms of Peer Disagreement in the Context of Scientific Inquiry, Understanding Scientific Disagreement at University of Bologna, Italy, Sept 2024
- The Value of Social Coherence in Science: An Agent-Based-Modelling Exploration, The 5th EENPS Biennial Conference at Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, Sept 2024
- Towards Zetetic Social epistemology, The Inquiry Network WIP Talks (online), Mar 2024
- Why Inquisitive Norms Matter: Exploring Peer Disagreement with an Agent-Based Model, Workshop on Computational Models in Social Epistemology at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, Dec 2023
- Environmental Ethics and Identity Problem, Philosophy Students’ Symposium at University of Maribor, Slovenia (online), Nov 2022
- Is explainability necessary for trustworthiness?, Ethical Challenges of Artificial Intelligence and New Technologies at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Oct 2022
- Opacity and understanding in artificial neural networks: a philosophical perspective, COGSCI22: Slovenian Cognitive Science Conference at Institute ‘Jožef Štefan’, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Oct 2022
- Mill and Whewell on discovery and proof of scientific theories, The 8th TMU Student Philosophy Conference at Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran (online), Dec 2021