Branden Fitelson

Branden Fitelson is Distinguished Dean's Professor of Formal Epistemology at Northeastern University. Prior to joining Northeastern, Branden was Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at San José State University. He has also held visiting positions at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (MCMP @ LMU) and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam (ILLC @ UvA). Branden co-founded the Formal Epistemology Workshop (FEW) in 2004 and co-organized its annual meetings for the first decade. His recent awards and honors include the 2020 Wolfram Innovator Award (for his work on PrSAT: a decision procedure for probability calculus) and the 2024 Wesley C. Salmon Memorial Lectureship at the University of Pittsburgh. Branden earned his MA and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before entering philosophy, Branden studied math and physics at Wisconsin and worked as a research scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and a NASA contractor.