Professor Katie Steele
Biography
Katie Steele studied mathematics at the University of Queensland (BSc 1999). She later pursued an MA in philosophy at the University of Queensland (MA 2003), followed by a PhD in philosophy at the University of Sydney (PhD 2007). Katie was subsequently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Australian Centre of Excellence for Risk Analysis at the University of Sydney. She then took up a position in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and remained there from 2008 to 2016, when she joined the School of Philosophy at the ANU. Katie presently holds a 4-year ANU Futures Scheme grant and is a co-investigator on the 'Ethics and Risk' ARC Discovery Project as well as a co-investigator on the 'Climate Change and Future Generations' grant based at the Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm.
Publications
- Steele, K 2022, 'The distinct moral importance of acting together', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 104, no. 2, pp. 505-510.
- Steele, K 2021, 'Incommensurability That Can(not) Be Ignored', in (ed.), Value Incommensurability: Ethics, Risk, and Decision-Making, Routledge, New York, USA, pp. 231-246.
- Steele, K 2021, 'Pareto improvements and Feasible Climate Solutions', in (ed.), Philosophy and Climate Change, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 346-369.
- Steele, K & Stefansson, H 2021, 'Belief Revision for Growing Awareness', Mind, vol. 130, no. 520, pp. 1207-1232.
- Steele, K & Stefansson, H 2021, Beyond Uncertainty: Reasoning with Unknown Possibilities, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
- Steele, K 2020, 'How to be imprecise and yet immune to sure loss', Synthese, vol. 199, pp. 427ââ¬â444.
- Steele, K & Stefánsson, H 2020, 'Decision Theory', in Edward N. Zalta (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, Stanford.
- Sandgren, A & Steele, K 2019, 'Levelling counterfactual scepticism', Synthese, vol. 199, pp. 927-947.
- Steele, K 2018, 'Dynamic Decision Theory', in Sven Ove Hansson & Vincent F Hendricks (ed.), Introduction to Formal Philosophy, Springer, Switerland, pp. 657-668pp.
- Steele, K & Werndl, C 2018, 'Model-Selection Theory: The Need for a More Nuanced Picture of Use-Novelty and Double-Counting', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 69, no. 2, pp. 351-375.
- Wüthrich, N & Steele, K 2017, 'The problem of evaluating automated large-scale evidence aggregators', Synthese, vol. online, pp. 1-20.
- Bradley, S & Steele, K 2016, 'Can Free Evidence Be Bad? Value of Information for the Imprecise Probabilist', Philosophy of Science, vol. 83, no. 1, pp. 1-28.
- Steele, K & Werndl, C 2016, 'Model tuning in engineering: Uncovering the logic', Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 63-71pp.
- Steele, K & Werndl, C 2016, 'The diversity of model tuning practices in climate science', Philosophy of Science, vol. 83, no. 5, pp. 1133-1144.
- Bradley, R & Steele, K 2015, 'Making Climate Decisions', Philosophy Compass, vol. 10, no. 11, pp. 799-810pp.
- Steele, K & Steffansson, H. Orri 2015, 'Decision Theory', in Edward N. Zalta (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, Stanford, pp. 41 pages.
- Steele, K 2014, 'Choice Models', in Nancy Cartwright, Eleonora Montuschi (ed.), Philosophy of Social Science, Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 185-208.
- Bradley, S & Steele, K 2014, 'Should subjective probabilities be sharp?', Episteme, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 277-289.
- Steele, K & Bradley, S 2014, 'Uncertainty, Learning, and the "Problem" of Dilation', Erkenntnis, vol. 79, no. 6, pp. 1287-1303.
- Steele, K 2013, 'Persistent Experimenters, Stopping Rules, and Statistical Inference', Erkenntnis, vol. 78, no. 4, pp. 937-961.
- Steele, K & Werndl, C 2013, 'Climate models, calibration, and confirmation', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 609-635.
- Steele, K 2012, 'The scientist qua policy advisor makes value judgments', Philosophy of Science, vol. 79, no. 5, pp. 893-904.
- Steele, K 2012, 'Testimony as Evidence: More Problems for Linear Pooling', Journal of Philosophical Logic, vol. 41, no. 6, pp. 983-999.
- Colyvan, M & Steele, K 2011, 'Environmental Ethics and Decision Theory: Fellow Travellers or Bitter Enemies?', in Kevin deLaplante, Bryson Brown and Kent A. Peacock (ed.), Philosophy of Ecology, Elsevier, Great Britain, pp. 285-301.
- Colyvan, M, Cox, D & Steele, K 2010, 'Modelling the Moral Dimension of Decisions', Nous, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 503-529.
- Steele, K 2010, 'What are the minimal requirements of rational choice? Arguments from the sequential-decision setting', Theory and Decision, vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 463-487.
- Steele, K, Carmel, Y, Cross, J et al 2009, 'Uses and misuses of multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) in environmental decision making', Risk Analysis, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 26-33.
- Steele, K 2007, 'Distinguishing indeterminate belief from "risk-averse" preferences', Synthese, vol. 158, no. 2, pp. 189-205.
- Steele, K, Regan, H, Colyvan, M et al 2007, 'Right decisions or happy decision-makers?', Social Epistemology: A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 349-368.
- Steele, K 2006, 'The Precautionary Principle: A New Approach to Public Decision-Making?', Law, Probability and Risk, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 19-31.