Deborah Mayo

Deborah G. Mayo is an American philosopher of science and author. She is a professor emerita in the Department of Philosophy at Virginia Tech and holds a visiting appointment at the Center for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Science of the London School of Economics.

Biography Mayo graduated from Clark University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1974. She received her PhD in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979, thesis title "Philosophy of Statistics".

Mayo was a professor of philosophy at Virginia Tech from 1979 to 2016. She taught undergraduate and graduate courses, including introductory and advanced logic (meta-theory of logic and modal logic), the scientific method and philosophy of science.

Published books Acceptable Evidence: Science and Values in Risk Management, co-edited with R.D. Hollander, Oxford University Press, 1994 Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge, University of Chicago Press, 1996. Error and Inference: Recent Exchanges on Experimental Reasoning, Reliability, and the Objectivity and Rationality of Science, Cambridge University Press, 2010 Statistical Inference as Severe Testing: How to Get Beyond the Statistics Wars, Cambridge University Press, 2018