Charlotte Werndl - Biography#

Charlotte Werndl is Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Department of philosophy at the University of Salzburg, Austria. Previously she was an Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and before that a research fellow at the University of Oxford. She is an Associate Editor of Philosophy of Science and previously she was an editor of the Review of Symbolic Logic and an associate editor of the European Journal for the Philosophy of Science. She serves on on a number of programme committees and advisory boards. She completed a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge in 2010 and master’s degrees both in mathematics and philosophy at the University of Salzburg in 2006. She has published papers on climate change, statistical mechanics, mathematical knowledge, chaos theory, predictability, confirmation, evidence, determinism, indeterminism, observational equivalence and underdetermination. Her current work focuses on the philosophy of climate science, evidence and the philosophy of statistics and the foundation of statistical mechanics.