CV

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Updated 2025/01/25

Education

Ph.D. Candidate Philosophy (LPS), University of California, Irvine, 2025 [Expected].
- Graduate Emphasis in Biology and the Behavioral Sciences
- Advisor: Cailin O’Connor
- Dissertation: “Network Epistemology and Scientific Dissent”
MSc Philosophy of Science, The London School of Economics and Political Science, 2017-2018
BSc (Hons) Mathematics, Queen Mary, University of London, 2014-2017

Coates, Matthew. 2024. “Does it Harm Science to Suppress Dissenting Evidence?” Philosophy of Science. https://doi.org/10.1017/psa.2024.21
Coates, Matthew. “Keynes, Wittgenstein, and Probability in the Tractatus” Forthcoming in HOPOS
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.

Refereed

“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

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)

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

Instructor

Teaching Assistant

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

UC Irvine

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