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Jamee Elder
Biography
Jamee Elder is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University and Affiliate of the BHI. She was formerly a BHI postdoctoral fellow (2020-2023). Before that, she was a Heinrich Hertz Fellow with the Lichtenberg Group for History and Philosophy of Physics at the University of Bonn. Elder completed her Ph.D. in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame.
Elder’s current research concerns the methodology and epistemology of large astrophysical experiments, especially those—including LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA and the EHT—that involve “observing” black holes. Much of her work concerns how models and simulations are embedded in experimental methods and what epistemic implications this has for making inferences about astrophysical target systems.
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