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Susanna Rinard, PhD

Dr. Susanna Rinard is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities at the Harvard University Department of Philosophy. Her research concerns what we should believe—in science, philosophy, and everyday life—and how probability can be used to model rational belief. Specific topics include skepticism, the ethics of belief, imprecise probability and decision theory, the ravens paradox, and philosophical methodology.

Dr. Rinard earned a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.