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Eran Tal

Academic title(s): 

Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair

Eran Tal
Contact Information
Address: 

Department of Philosophy,听海角社区
Leacock Building
855 Sherbrooke St. W.
Montreal, Quebec听H3A 2T7

Phone: 
514-398-5168
Email address: 
eran.tal [at] mcgill.ca
Office: 
Leacock 933
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Research areas: 
Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of Measurement
Data Ethics
Biography: 

Eran Tal is Canada Research Chair in Data Ethics. He听joined the Philosophy Department at 海角社区 in 2016, after holding fellowships at the University of Cambridge and Bielefeld University.听He has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Toronto (2012) and an MA in History and Philosophy of Science from Tel Aviv University (2006).听

Tal鈥檚 work deals with the epistemic and ethical dimensions of data collection, data analysis and data use in the sciences. He has contributed to the听philosophy of measurement, an area within philosophy of science that deals with the concepts and problems involved in designing, operating and interpreting measurement procedures.听His current research projects concern the conceptual foundations of psychometrics, and the ethical and social implications of big data听and machine learning algorithms.

Selected publications: 
  • Tal, E. (2024) 鈥溾��, in Tarja Knuuttila, Natalia Carrillo, and Rami Koskinen (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Scientific Modeling, London: Routledge, pp. 256-269.
  • Rodriguez Duque, S., Tal, E., and Barbic, S., (2024) 鈥溾��, Measurement 225, 113993.
  • Tal, E., (2023) "", AIES '23: Proceedings of the 2023 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, pp. 312鈥�321. ()
  • Tal, E. (2021), 鈥溾��,听Perspectives on Science听29 (6), pp. 701-741. ()
  • Tal, E. (2020) 鈥溾��, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edward N. Zalta (ed.)
  • Tal, E. (2019), "", Philosophical Studies听176 (4), pp. 853-878.
  • Tal, E. (2018) 鈥溾��, Measurement 116, pp. 631-643.
  • Tal, E. (2017) 鈥溾��, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 65-66, pp. 33-45
  • Tal, E. (2017) 鈥溾��, in Nicola M枚脽ner and Alfred Nordmann (eds.), Reasoning in Measurement, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 233-253.
  • Tal, E. (2016) 鈥溾��, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 772, 012001.
  • Tal, E. (2016) 鈥溾��, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 67, pp. 297-335. (Co-winner of the 2016 Sir Karl Popper Prize)
  • Tal, E. (2013) 鈥溾�� Philosophy Compass 8 (12), pp. 1159鈥�1173.
  • Tal, E. (2011) 鈥溾�� Philosophy of Science 78 (5), pp. 1082-1096.
  • Tal, E. (2011) 鈥溾��, Synthese 182 (1), pp. 117-129.

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Projects: 
  • 2019 - 2025 Canada Research Chair in Data Ethics (Tier 2), CAD 600,000
  • 2019 - 2020 "Psychiatric Illness in Canadian Youth: Mobilizing Measurement to Improve Clinical Care", Healthy Brains for Healthy Lives (HBHL) Knowledge Mobilization Grant, CAD听99,733
  • 2017 鈥� 2020 鈥淭he Conceptual Foundations of Psychometrics鈥�, Research support for new academics, Fonds de recherche du Qu茅bec 鈥� Soci茅t茅 et culture (FRQSC), CAD 56,000
  • 2014 鈥� 2016 鈥淓conomies of Uncertainty: Epistemological Perspectives on the Reform of the Metric System鈥�, Marie Curie Research Fellowship, European Commission, EUR 231,000
  • 2012 鈥� 2014 鈥淰irtual Measurement: Novel Ways of Knowing in the Natural Sciences鈥�, Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation,听EUR 90,000

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