Papers

A list of published and unpublished papers is below. Mouseover the “official” or “preprint” link for an abstract. If you would like to cite a draft, please email me at r (dot) heesen (at) lse (dot) ac (dot) uk so I can send you the latest version if it’s different from the one available here. You can also email me with any questions or comments you may have.

Peer-reviewed publications

Jury Theorems for Peer Review (with Marcus Arvan and Liam Kofi Bright).
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, forthcoming. ISSN 1464-3537.
official (open access) accepted version bib

Cumulative Advantage and the Incentive to Commit Fraud in Science.
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, forthcoming. ISSN 1464-3537.
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Epistemology of Ignorance: The Contribution of Philosophy to the Science-Policy Interface of Marine Biosecurity (with six coauthors).
Frontiers in Marine Science 10: 1–5, 2023. ISSN 2296-7745.
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Perspectives on Scientific Error (with fourteen coauthors).
Royal Society Open Science 10(7): 230448, 2023. ISSN 2054-5703.
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Measurement Invariance, Selection Invariance, and Fair Selection Revisited (with Jan-Willem Romeijn).
Psychological Methods, 28(3): 687–690, 2023. ISSN 1082-989X.
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To be Scientific is to be Communist (with Liam Kofi Bright).
Social Epistemology, 37(3): 249–258, 2023. ISSN 0269-1728.
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The Necessity of Commensuration Bias in Grant Peer Review.
Ergo, 8(39): 423–443, 2022. ISSN 2330-4014.
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Is Peer Review a Good Idea? (with Liam Kofi Bright).
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 72(3): 635–663, 2021. ISSN 0007-0882.
official (open access) published version bib Daily Nous coverage

Epistemic Diversity and Editor Decisions: A Statistical Matthew Effect (with Jan-Willem Romeijn).
Philosophers’ Imprint, 19(39): 1–20, 2019. ISSN 1533-628X.
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The Credit Incentive to Be a Maverick.
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 76: 5–12, 2019. ISSN 0039-3681.
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Vindicating Methodological Triangulation (with Liam Kofi Bright and Andrew Zucker).
Synthese, 196(8): 3067–3081, 2019. ISSN 1573-0964.
official (open access) published version bib video

Why the Reward Structure of Science Makes Reproducibility Problems Inevitable.
The Journal of Philosophy, 115(12): 661–674, 2018. ISSN 0022-362X.
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When Journal Editors Play Favorites.*
Philosophical Studies, 175(4): 831–858, 2018. ISSN 0031-8116.
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* – Included in The Philosopher’s Annual, vol. 38, 2018. Editors’ summary.

A Role for Judgment Aggregation in Coauthoring Scientific Papers (with Liam Kofi Bright and Haixin Dang).
Erkenntnis, 83(2): 231–252, 2018. ISSN 1572-8420.
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Communism and the Incentive to Share in Science.
Philosophy of Science, 84(4): 698–716, 2017. ISSN 0031-8248.
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Academic Superstars: Competent or Lucky?
Synthese, 194(11): 4499–4518, 2017. ISSN 1573-0964.
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A Game-Theoretic Approach to Peer Disagreement (with Pieter van der Kolk).
Erkenntnis, 81(6): 1345–1368, 2016. ISSN 1572-8420.
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How Much Evidence Should One Collect?
Philosophical Studies, 172(9): 2299–2313, 2015. ISSN 0031-8116.
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The Bounded Strength of Weak Expectations (with Jan Sprenger).
Mind, 120(479): 819–832, 2011. ISSN 0026-4423.
official penultimate version bib

Drafts

The Young-(Helmholtz)-Maxwell Theory of Color Vision.
preprint

Three Ways To Become An Academic Superstar.
NB: A significantly revised version of this paper is published in Synthese as “Academic Superstars: Competent or Lucky?”. It is available elsewhere on this page.
preprint

Other publications

Review of Thomas Boyer-Kassem, Conor Mayo-Wilson, and Michael Weisberg’s Scientific Collaboration and Collective Knowledge.
Philosophy of Science, 86(1): 192–198, 2019. ISSN 0031-8248.
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Laat het oor niet hangen naar een televisiepresentator (with Jan-Willem Romeijn and Hendrik Siebe).
Sociale Vraagstukken, opinion piece on opinion formation in groups, in Dutch, 2019.
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Expediting the Flow of Knowledge Versus Rushing into Print.
PhilSci Archive, Technical Report 15161, 2018.
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The Incentive to Share in the Intermediate Results Game.
PhilSci Archive, Technical Report 13321, 2017.
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To Expedite the Flow of Knowledge.
Carnegie Mellon University (Department of Philosophy), PhD Dissertation, 2016.
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Network Formation with Heterogeneous Nodes and Stochasticity.
Carnegie Mellon University (Department of Philosophy), Technical Report CMU-PHIL-191, 2016.
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For the Wrong Reasons.
Rerum Causae (Journal of the LSE Philosophy Society), 2:43–62, 2010.
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Zelf Vertrouwen: Adviezen aan publieke organisaties om de vertrouwensrelatie met burgers te verbeteren (with 21 co-authors).
Stichting De Nationale DenkTank, final report on the relation of trust between citizens and public organizations, in Dutch, 2010.
official De Nationale DenkTank