Dr Ina Jäntgen
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Pronouns: she/her
Vita
Ina Jäntgen works in philosophy of science, with a focus on the philosophy of medicine and the social sciences, and in formal epistemology and decision theory. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. She completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge with a dissertation on how effect sizes ought to be measured and used to inform rational decision-making. Prior to Cambridge, she completed a Research Master's in Philosophy & Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Contribution to SOCRATES
While at SOCRATES, Ina plans to focus on a new project on how uncertainty attitudes — such as risk aversion and ambiguity aversion— influence scientific knowledge. In this project, she hopes to show that such uncertainty attitudes constitute a distinct but overlooked influence on science, functioning as hidden values shaping scientific knowledge, and to develop a new framework forunderstanding and managing their influence on the production of scientific knowledge.
