CV
Updated 2025/10/01
Employment
- Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor - Philosophy 2025-2026
- Bowling Green State University, Ohio
Education
- Ph.D Philosophy (LPS), University of California, Irvine, 2025
- Graduate Emphasis in Biology and the Behavioral Sciences
- Advisor: Cailin O’Connor
- Dissertation: “Single and Multilayer Networks in Philosophy”
- MSc Philosophy of Science, The London School of Economics and Political Science, 2017-2018
- BSc (Hons) Mathematics, Queen Mary, University of London, 2014-2017
Publications
- Coates, Matthew. 2024. “Does it Harm Science to Suppress Dissenting Evidence?” Philosophy of Science. 92(1):82-99.
- Coates, Matthew. “Keynes, Wittgenstein, and Probability in the Tractatus” HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science. 15(1): 99-124 https://doi.org/10.1086/734643
- Sherlock, Emma, Matthew Coates and Csaba Csuzdi. 2022. “Modelling of climatic tolerances of three earthworm species; Satchellius mammalis, Lumbricus friendi and Lumbricus festivus using Maximum Entropy Modeling”. Opuscula Zoologica. 53(1): 51–65.
Works in Progress
- Multilayer Networks and the Evolution of Risky Cooperation [In Preperation]
- Does Managing industrial dissent help public belief [In Preperation]
Talks and Presentations
Refereed
- “Cooperating with Friends”, The 9th Meeting of the Philosophy, Politics and Economics Society (PPE). New Orleans, LA. November 2025 [Upcoming].
- “Multilayer Networks and the Evolution of Risky Cooperation”, PSA Around the World 2025. Online. November 2025 [Upcoming].
- “Multilayer Networks and the Evolution of Risky Cooperation”, The 29th Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA). New Orleans, LA. November 2024.
- “Multilayer Networks and the Evolution of Risky Cooperation”, The 8th Meeting of the Philosophy, Politics and Economics Society (PPE). New Orleans, LA. November 2024.
- “Does it Harm Science to Suppress Dissenting Evidence?”, The 8th Meeting of the Philosophy, Politics and Economics Society (PPE). New Orleans, LA. November 2024.
- “Multilayer Networks and the Evolution of Risky Cooperation”, Philosophical Engagement with Biology and Medicine Workshop, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany. September 2024
- “Multilayer Networks and the Evolution of Risky Cooperation?”, Philosophy of Biology at the Mountains (POBAM) 2024. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. July 2024
- “Does it Harm Science to Suppress Dissenting Evidence?”, Workshop on Computational Models in Social Epistemology. Bochum, Germany. December 2023
- “Modelling Hiding Dissent in Journal Publications”, 17th International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (CLMPST). Buenos Aires, Argentina. July 2023
- “Modelling Hiding Dissent in Journal Publications”. Poster at the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA). Pittsburgh, PA. November 2022.
- “Modelling Scientific Advisory Groups”. Poster at the Formal Epistemology Workshop (FEW). Irvine, CA. November 2022.
Invited
- “Multilayer Networks and the Evolution of Risky Cooperation”, Computational Social Philosophy Seminars, Online, January 2025
- “Modelling Hiding Dissent in Journal Publications”, University of California Science, Values, and Policy Workshop, June 2023
- “The Unconscious Conventionalism of the Geometry of Space Time”, 6th LSE-Bayreuth Student Philosophy Conference, University of Bayreuth, May 2018
Awards and Fellowships
- LPS Graduate Service Award (UC Irvine, 2025, $150) - For outstanding contributions to graduate student recruitment and mentorship
- LPS Graduate Service Award (UC Irvine, 2024, $150)
- LPS Graduate Service Award (UC Irvine, 2023, $150)
- Social Science Merit Fellowship, School of Social Science (UC Irvine, 2019-2025)
Service
- Referee: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
- Organizer, Symposium on “Learning Across Games”, PPE 2025, New Orleans, November 2025.
- Library Representative, Department of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University, 2025-2026.
- Activities Chair, Department of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University, 2025-2026.
- Faculty Liaison, PPEL Club, Bowling Green State University, 2025-2026.
- Panelist, Workshop on teaching logic, UC Irvine, December 2024.
- Organizer, Symposium on “Modeling the Social Structure of Science,” PPE 2024, New Orleans, November 2024.
- Coordinator, Work-in-Progress (WiP) talk series, UC Irvine LPS, 2023-2024.
- Coordinator, Kent Johnson Memorial Fund Teaching Workshop: Syllabus Design, UC Irvine, 2023-2024.
- Judge, Undergraduate Research Symposium, UC Irvine, April-May 2024
- Reviewer, UC Irvine Graduate Philosophy Conference, 2023-2024
- Judge, Undergraduate Research Symposium Poster Session, UC Irvine, May 2023.
- Co-organizer, Conference on “Values, Fairness, and Machine Learning,” UC Irvine, June 2022.
- Organizer, Talk by John Worrall, The London School of Economics and Political Science, November 2017.
- Volunteer Curation and Research, Freeliving and Parasitic Worm Collections, Natural History Museum London, 2017-2019.
- Founder and President, Philosophy Society, Queen Mary, University of London, 2016-2017
Teaching
Instructor
Syllabi available on demand
Bowling Green State University
Topics in Social and Political Philosophy - Ethics and AI (PHIL 4240), Spring 2026 (Upcoming)
Methods of Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law (PHIL/PPEL 3100), Spring 2026 (Upcoming)
Introduction to Philosophy (Phil 1010), Spring 2026 (Upcoming)
Introduction to Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law (PHIL/PPEL 2240), Fall 2025
Introduction to Philosophy (Phil 1010), Fall 2025
- Contemporary Moral Issues (Phil 1250), Fall 2025
University of California, Irvine
- Introduction to Symbolic Logic (LPS 30), Summer 2024
- Philosophy of Sex (LPS 91), Fall 2023
- Introduction to Symbolic Logic (LPS 30), Summer 2023
Teaching Assistant
- University of California, Irvine
- Voting and Manipulation (Pol Sci 151), Winter 2024, UC Irvine
- Global Economy (Econ 13), Spring 2023, UC Irvine
- Philosophy of Sex (LPS 91), Winter 2023, UC Irvine
- Peoples of the Pacific (Anthro 163A), Fall 2022, UC Irvine
- Introduction to Inductive Logic (LPS 31), Spring 2022, UC Irvine
- Introduction to Symbolic Logic (LPS 30), Winter 2022, UC Irvine [Hybrid]
- Critical Reasoning (LPS 29), Fall 2021, UC Irvine [Online]
- Introduction to Symbolic Logic (LPS 30), Winter 2021, UC Irvine [Online]
- Critical Reasoning (LPS 29), Fall 2020, UC Irvine [Online]
- Introduction to Inductive Logic (LPS 31), Spring 2020, UC Irvine [Online]
- Critical Reasoning (LPS 29), Winter 2020, UC Irvine
Research Employment and Collaborations
- Graduate Student Researcher, Supported by NSF grant 1922424: “Consensus, Democracy, and the Public Understanding of Science” (Co-PIs O’Connor and Weatherall). Conducted research on hiding dissent by scientists. Summers 2020, 2021
- Researcher, Freeliving and Parasitic Worm Collections, Natural History Museum London. Helped to perform research using mapping and computational modelling to understand the effects of climate change on worm populations. 2017-2019
Additional Educational and Professional Training
- Active Learning Certification, Bowling Green State University, Fall 2025
- Mentoring Excellence Certificate Program, UC Irvine, Winter 2025
- Pedagogy of Kindness Workshop, UC Irvine, Fall 2024
- Kent Johnson Memorial Fund Teaching Workshop: Syllabus Design, Spring 2023
- TA Professional Development Program, UC Irvine, Fall 2019
- Microsoft Excel Core Certification
Graduate coursework(*=audit)
UC Irvine
- Evolving Games (with Jeff Barrett and Brian Skyrms)
- Convention (with Cailin O’Connor)*
- Self Assembling Games (with Jeff Barrett and Brian Skyrms)
- Puzzles in Modern Biology (with Steve Frank)
- How We Became Human (with Kyle Stanford)*
- Game Theory in the Philosophy of Biology (with Cailin O’Connor)
- Social Dynamics (with Louis Narens and Brian Skyrms) x5
- Mathematical and Computational Biology (with German Encisco)
- Keynes’ Philosophy of Probability (independent study with Brian Skyrms)
- Chance (with Simon Huttegger and Brian Skyrms)
- Intro to Voting Theory (with Marek Kaminski)
- Emerging Inequality (with Cailin O’Connor)*
- History of Analytic Philosophy (with Jeremy Heis)
- Philosophy of Science (topic: Decision Theory and Deliberation with Simon Huttegger)
- Philosophy of Cosmology (with Chris Smeenk and James Weatherall)*
- Political Economy 1 (with Stergios Skaperdas)
- Kant’s First Critique (with Jeremy Heis)
- The Social Contract (with Brian Skyrms)
- Network Epistemology (with Cailin O’Connor)
- Incompleteness (with Toby Meadows)
- Metalogic (with Toby Meadows)
- Money (with Aaron James)
- University Teaching x4
LSE
- Set Theory and Further Logic (with Miklos Redei and David Makinson)
- Philosophy of Science (with Ioannis Votsis)
- Einstein for Everyone (with Bryan Roberts)
- Physics and the City (with Bryan Roberts)