Borut Trpin

About

I'm an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana.

I'm also a principal investigator on the project Scientific Discovery and Scientific Justification: A Coherentist Perspective at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Maribor.

Before that, I was a postdoc at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich (2019-2025), and a postdoc at the Department of Philosophy, University of Salzburg. (2018-2019). My PhD is from the University of Ljubljana (2018).

I work in formal epistemology and philosophy of science, building computational and probabilistic models of reasoning under uncertainty. My research centers on inference to the best explanation, coherence, and scientific disagreement, alongside related epistemic issues, aiming to clarify how normative ideals of reasoning interact with the real-world practice of science.

Here are a few more things about me:

Associate editor of Acta Analytica.
Guest editor of Understanding Climate Change in European Journal for Philosophy of Science (with Gabriel Târziu).
Contact: borut.trpin@ff.uni-lj.si
Full CV.
Google Scholar.
ORCID: 0000-0002-1121-9388.
Bluesky: @boruttrpin.bsky.social.

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Research

Some Recent and Forthcoming Publications

Forthcoming: Testing Abductions From Uncertain Evidence, co-authored with Finnur Dellsén, The Philosophical Quarterly.
Forthcoming: The Mix Matters: Exploring the Interplay Between Epistemic and Zetetic Norms in Scientific Disagreement, co-authored with Martin Justin, Dunja Šešelja, and Christian Straßer, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
Forthcoming: Why Coherence Matters, co-authored with Stephan Hartmann, The Journal of Philosophy.
2025: Coherence as a Constraint on Scientific Inquiry, co-authored with Martin Justin, Synthese.
2025: The Puzzle of Scientific Disagreement, co-authored with Mariangela Zoe Cocchiaro, European Journal for Philosophy of Science.
2024: Affirming the Explanandum, Analysis; preprint.
2023: Conjunctive Explanations: A Coherentist Appraisal, co-authored with Stephan Hartmann. In: Conjunctive Explanations: The Nature, Epistemology, and Psychology of Explanatory Multiplicity, J. Schupbach and D. Glass (eds.), Routledge.
2023: Bayesians Still Don't Learn from Conditionals, co-authored with Mario Günther, Acta Analytica.
2023: Against methodological gambling, Erkenntnis.
2021: Lying, more or less: A computer simulation study of graded lies and trust dynamics, co-authored with Anna Dobrosovestnova and Sebastian J. Götzendorfer, Synthese.
2020: Jeffrey Conditionalization: Proceed with Caution, Philosophical Studies; preprint.
2019: Inference to the Best Explanation in Uncertain Evidential Situations, co-authored with Max Pellert, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science; preprint.
2019: 'Seize it, if thou dar'st': Three Types of Imperative Conditional in Richard II. In: The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Philosophy, C. Bourne and E. Caddick Bourne (eds.).

Conference Proceedings

2025: Coherence-Based Evidence Filtering: A Computational Exploration, co-authored with Martin Justin, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
2024: A New Posterior Probability-Based Measure of Coherence, co-authored with Stephan Hartmann, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
2024: Explaining the Conjunction Fallacy, co-authored with Stephan Hartmann, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
2023: Confirmation, Coherence and the Strength of Arguments, co-authored with Stephan Hartmann, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
2023: Coherence of Information: What It Is and Why It Matters, co-authored with Stephan Hartmann, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

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Talks

Some Recent and Forthcoming Talks

May 2026: Coherence Under Uncertainty, Theoretical Rationality and Practical Reason, Sofia University, Bulgaria.
November 2025: Beyond Representationalism: How Climate Models Refine Scientific Understanding, PSA Around the World.
September 2025: Learning Without Representation: The Epistemic Role of Models in Climate Science, Cambridge-LMU Munich Workshop, University of Cambridge, U.K.
August 2025: Testing IBE from Uncertain Evidence (with Finnur Dellsén), EPSA 2025, Groningen, Netherlands.
August 2025: Industry Sponsorship Bias as Higher-Order Evidence: An Agent-Based Exploration (with Martin Justin, Dunja Šešelja, and Christian Straßer), EPSA 2025, Groningen, Netherlands.
July 2025: Coherence-Based Evidence Filtering: A Computational Exploration (poster), CogSci 2025, San Francisco, USA.
July 2025: Belief as Testimony to Oneself, The 15th London Reasoning Workshop, University College London, U.K.
June 2025: Affirming Beliefs, Social, Political, and Legal Epistemology, Bled, Slovenia.
May 2025: Commentary: "The Infectious Indeterminacy of Indeterminate Credences" (J. Carr), Formal Epistemology Workshop 2025, University of Iceland.
May 2025: Full Belief as Testimony to Oneself, WIP Seminar, MCMP/LMU Munich, Germany.
April 2025: Affirming Beliefs, Lunch Talk, Institute of Philosophy, University of Iceland.
April 2025: Coherence, Belief Updating, and Epistemic Luck (with Martin Justin), The Legacy of Nenad's Philosophical Thought, University of Rijeka, Croatia.
February 2025: Bayesian Coherentism, Bayesian Methods in Practice, Center for Advanced Studies, LMU Munich, Germany.
January 2025: Coherence as a Filter for Misleading Data: An Agent-Based Exploration. Formal Models of Scientific Inquiry, RUB, Bochum, Germany (with Martin Justin).

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Contact

E-mail:
borut.trpin@ff.uni-lj.si

Mailing address:
Borut Trpin
Filozofska fakulteta UL
Aškerčeva cesta 2
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia

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Acknowledgement

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