Department of Philosophy

McNamara’s work is mostly in decision theory, formal epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language. He has special interests in the debate between causal and evidential decision theory; in the use of conditionals in deliberation and uncertain reasoning; and in the metaphysics of causation and chance. He received his PhD in 2024, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prior to that, he was an undergraduate at King’s College London. He is currently spending a year as a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale, and will be joining Indiana University, Bloomington, as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy in 2025.