Simon Huttegger

Assistant Professor of Logic & Philosophy of Science

Vita

I grew up in the mountainous part of Salzburg/Austria. I studied at the University of Salzburg, where I obtained my doctorate in philosophy in 2006. Before joining UCI in summer 2008, I spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research. To learn more about me see my cv.

Research

My research interests include game and decision theory, philosophy of biology, and philosophy of science. In particular, I am interested in evolutionary game theory and the theory of learning in games. I have done work on the evolution of signaling. I have also been working on information transfer between agents capable of learning. Moreover, I am interested in measurability and quantification in evolutionary and developmental biology. I am currently working on geometric representations in biology. Apart from these more specific research topics, I am also interested in induction, probability, and dynamical systems. Some of my papers can be found below. My Erdös number is 4.

Selected Bibliography

Evolution and the Explanation of Meaning. Philosophy of Science 74, 2007, 1-27.

Evolutionary Explanations of Indicatives and Imperatives. Erkenntnis 66, 2007, 409-436.

On Robustness in Signaling Games. Philosophy of Science 74, 2007, 839-847.

Emergence of Information Transfer by Inductive Learning (co-authored with Brian Skyrms). Studia Logica 89, 2008, 237-256.

Feasibility of communication in binary signaling games (co-authored with Josef Hofbauer). Journal of Theoretical Biology 254, 2008, 843-849.

Evolutionary Dynamics of Lewis Signaling Games (co-authored with Brian Skyrms, Rory Smead and Kevin J. S. Zollman). Synthese, forthcoming 2009.

Signaling Games: Dynamics of Evolution and Learning (co-authored with Kevin J. S. Zollman). In: Language, Games, and Evolution, edited by Anton Benz, forthcoming 2009.

The Concept of Morphospaces in Evolutionary and Developmental Biology (co-authored with Philipp Mitteröcker). Biological Theory, forthcoming 2009.

Generic Properties of Evolutionary Games and Adaptationism. Journal of Philosophy, forthcoming.

Contact Information

Office:	SST 785
Phone:	(949) 824-3220
Email:	shuttegg@uci.edu