Romeijn, Prof. Jan-Willem
Jan-Willem Romeijn (1975) is professor of Philosophy of Science. He studied physics and philosophy in Utrecht. He graduated with honours in both degree programmes. In 2005 he was awarded a PhD with honours by the University of Groningen, Faculty of Philosophy, with a thesis on inductive reasoning. Romeijn’s research concentrates on chance, probability theory, philosophy of science and psychological measurement theory. He also teaches course units on subjects such as philosophy of science and philosophy of physics.
In 2009 Romeijn was voted Lecturer of the Year at the University of Groningen. In 2010 he was awarded a Vidi grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). These grants are intended to help talented researchers develop their own line of research and set up their own research group. Romeijn intends to use the grant to research the nature of probability and the statistical methodologies used in science and business to calculate odds.
According to philosopher of science Romeijn, the controversial ‘discovery’ by CERN of neutrinos that travel faster than light will certainly result in valuable insights. If the findings are right, important scientific insights will have to be adapted. If they are not, they will form interesting study material for philosophers of science. Read his article: ‘Measurement error or not, CERN neutrino research provides valuable insights’ .
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2022
Heesen,
R., & Romeijn, J.-W. (2023).
Measurement Invariance, Selection Invariance, and Fair
Selection Revisited. Psychological
Methods, 28(3), 687-690. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000491
2021
Beijers,
L., van Loo, H. M., Romeijn,
J.-W., Lamers, F., Schoevers, R. A.,
& Wardenaar, K. J. (2022). Investigating
Data-driven Biological Subtypes of Psychiatric Disorders Using
Specification-Curve Analysis - ERRATUM.
Psychological Medicine, 52(6), 1200.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291721000660
2020
Romeijn,
J. W. (2024). An Interpretation of Weights in Linear
Opinion Pooling. Episteme,
21(1), 19-33. https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2020.45
Beijers,
L., van Loo, H. M., Romeijn,
J.-W., Lamers, F., Schoevers, R. A.,
& Wardenaar, K. J. (2022). Investigating
data-driven biological subtypes of psychiatric disorders using
specification-curve analysis. Psychological
Medicine, 52(6), 1089-1100. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291720002846
Romeijn,
J.-W. (2020). Commentary on Gallagher’s Body
self-awareness: Multiple levels or dynamical Gestalt? In K.
S. Kendler, J. Parnas, & P. Zachar (Eds.), Levels of
Analysis in Psychopathology: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
(pp. 160‐167). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108750349.014
Eronen,
M. I., & Romeijn, J.-W. (2020).
Philosophy of science and the formalization of psychological
theory. Theory & Psychology,
30(6), 786-799. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354320969876
Romeijn,
J.-W., & Loo, van, H. (2020).
Psychiatric classification: an a-reductionist
perspective. In K. S. Kendler, J. Parnas, & P. Zachar
(Eds.), Levels of Analysis in Psychopathology:
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives (1 ed., pp. 349-370).
Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108750349
2019
van
Loo, H. M., Romeijn, J.-W., &
Kendler, K. S. (2019). Changing The Definition Of The
Kilogram: Insights For Psychiatric Disease Classification.
Philosophy psychiatry & psychology,
26(4), E97-E108. https://doi.org/10.1353/ppp.2019.0046
Heesen,
R., & Romeijn, J.-W. (2019).
Epistemic Diversity and Editor Decisions: A Statistical
Matthew Effect. Philosophers' Imprint,
19(39), 1-20. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3521354.0019.039
Romeijn,
J.-W., Heesen, R., & Siebe, H.
(2019). Laat het oor niet hangen naar een
televisiepresentator. Sociale
Vraagstukken.
van
Loo, H. M., & Romeijn, J.-W. (2019).
What's in a model? Network models as tools instead of
representations of what psychiatric disorders really are.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42,
Article 30. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X18001206
2018
Romeijn,
J.-W., & Roy, O. (2018). All agreed: Aumann meets
DeGroot. Theory and Decision,
85(1), 41-60. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11238-017-9633-9
Romeijn,
J.-W., & Williamson, J. (2018). Intervention and
Identifiability in Latent Variable Modelling.
Minds and machines, 28(2), 243-264.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-018-9460-y
2017
Van
Loo, H. M., & Romeijn, J. .-W. (2018).
Measuring and defining: the double role of the DSM criteria
for psychiatric disorders. Psychological
Medicine, 48(5), 872-873. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291717001799
Massimi,
M., Romeijn, J.-W., & Schurz, G. (Eds.) (2017).
EPSA15 selected papers: The 5th conference of the
European Philosophy of Science Association in
Düsseldorf. (European Studies in Philosophy of
Science; Vol. 5). Springer.
Romeijn,
J. (2017). Inherent Complexity: A Problem for
Statistical Model Evaluation. Philosophy of
Science, 84(5), 797-809. https://doi.org/10.1086/693927
Romeijn,
J. (2017). Statistics as logic: Commentary on Gelman
and Hennig. Journal of the Royal Statistical
Society. Series A: Statistics in Society,
180(4), 118-119.
Romeijn,
J. (2017). Zelfoverschatting. In M. Geels,
& T. van Opijnen (Eds.), Nederland in Ideeën: 101
denkers over inzichten en innovaties die ons land
verander(d)en Maven Publishing.
2016
Peeters,
J., & Romeijn, J.-W. (2016).
Epistemic considerations about uncertainty and model
selection in computational archaeology: A case study on exploratory
modeling. In M. Brouwer Burg, H. Peeters, & W. Lovis
(Eds.), Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis in Archaeological
Computational Modeling (pp. 37-58). (Interdisciplinary
Contributions to Archaeology ). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27833-9_3
Wenmackers,
S., & Romeijn, J.-W. (2016). New Theory
about Old Evidence: A framework for open-minded Bayesianism.
Synthese, 193(4), 1225-1250. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-014-0632-x
Romeijn,
J. (2016). Preface to this edition. In
Logic of Statistical Inference (2 ed., pp. IX-X).
(Cambridge Philosophy Classics). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316534960.001
van
Loo, H. M., Schoevers, R. A., Kendler, K.
S., de Jonge, P., & Romeijn, J.-W.
(2016). Psychiatric comorbidity does not only depend on
diagnostic thresholds: an illustration with major depressive
disorder and generalized anxiety disorder.
Depression and Anxiety, 33(2),
143-152. https://doi.org/10.1002/da.22453
Romeijn,
J., Morey, R., & Rouder, J. N. (2016). The
philosophy of Bayes’ factors and the quantification of
statistical evidence. Journal of Mathematical
Psychology, 72, 6–18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmp.2015.11.001
Romeijn,
J., & van Loo, H. (2016). Van
realisme of constructivisme naar conventionalisme in de
psychiatrie. Wijsgerig Perspectief,
56(3), 24–31.
Romeijn,
J.-W. (2016). Wetenschapsfilosofie als
grensganger. Algemeen Nederlands tijdschrift voor
wijsbegeerte, 108(4), 509–513. https://doi.org/10.5117/ANTW2016.4.ROME
2015
Fried,
E. I., Boschloo, L., van Borkulo, C. D.,
Schoevers, R. A., Romeijn, J.-W.,
Wichers, M., de Jonge, P., Nesse, R. M.,
Tuerlinckx, F., & Borsboom, D. (2015). Commentary:
"Consistent Superiority of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors
Over Placebo in Reducing Depressed Mood in Patients with Major
Depression". Frontiers in Psychiatry,
6(117), Article 117. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00117
Romeijn,
J. (2015). De Wetenschapsvisie: eenzijdig en
Marxistisch.
van
Loo, H., & Romeijn, J. (2015).
Psychiatric comorbidity: fact or artifact?
Theoretical medicine and bioethics,
36(1), 41-60. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-015-9321-0
2014
Romeijn,
J.-W. (2014). Humanities’ New Methods: a
reconnaissance mission. In R. Bod, J. Maat, & T.
Weststeijn (Eds.), Making of the Humanities III (pp.
527-539). Amsterdam University Press. http://www.oapen.org/download?type=document&docid=500288
Romeijn,
J.-W. (2014). Onwetendheid. In M. Geels, &
T. van Opijnen (Eds.), Dit wil je weten (pp. 210-213).
Maven Publishing.
Romeijn,
J.-W. (2014). Philosophy of Statistics. In E.
N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(pp. 1-86) http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2014/entries/statistics/
Romeijn,
J.-W., & Roy, O. (2014). Radical Uncertainty:
Beyond Probabilistic Models of Belief.
Erkenntnis, 79(6), 1221-1223. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-014-9687-9
2013
Romeijn,
J.-W. (2013). Abducted by Bayesians?
Journal of Applied Logic, 11(4),
430-439. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jal.2012.09.003
Romeijn,
J. W., van den Heuvel, E. R., & Wit, E. C.
(Eds.) (2013). "All Models are Wrong...".
Statistica Neerlandica, 66(3).
Romeijn,
J.-W. (2013). De calculerende burger. In M.
Geels, & T. van Opijnen (Eds.), Nederland in ideeën:
101 denkers over inzichten en innovaties die ons land
verander(d)en (pp. 288-291). Maven Publishing.
Romeijn,
J.-W. (2013). De ideeënmotor voor de
wetenschap. De Groene
Amsterdammer.
Romeijn,
J.-W., Sterkenburg, T., & Grünwald , P. (2013).
Good listeners, wise crowds, and parasitic experts.
Analyse & Kritik, 34(2),
399-409. https://doi.org/10.1515/auk-2012-0215
van
Loo, H. M., Romeijn, J.-W., de Jonge,
P., & Schoevers, R. A. (2013).
Psychiatric comorbidity and causal disease models.
Preventive Medicine, 57(6), 748-752.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2012.10.018
Morey,
R. D., Romeijn, J.-W., & Rouder, J. N. (2013).
The humble Bayesian: Model checking from a fully Bayesian
perspective. British Journal of Mathematical and
Statistical Psychology, 66(1), 68-75. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8317.2012.02067.x
Romeijn,
J.-W., Pacuit, E., & Pedersen, A. P. (2013). When
is an example a counterexample? In B. C. Schipper (Ed.),
Proceedings of the 14th conference on theoretical aspects of
rationality and knowledge : TARK 2013 (pp. 156-165). ACM
Press.
2012
Wit,
E., van den Heuvel, E., & Romeijn, J.-W.
(2012). All models are wrong...': an introduction to model
uncertainty. Statistica Neerlandica,
66(3), 217-236. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9574.2012.00530.x
van
de Schoot, R., Hoijtink, H., Romeijn, J.-W., &
Brugman, D. (2012). A prior predictive loss function for the
evaluation of inequality constrained hypotheses.
Journal of Mathematical Psychology,
56(1), 13-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmp.2011.10.001
Romeijn,
J. W. (2012). Conditioning and Interpretation
Shifts. Studia Logica,
100(3), 583-606. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11225-012-9415-x
van
Loo, H. M., de Jonge, P., Romeijn,
J.-W., Kessler, R. C., & Schoevers, R. A.
(2012). Data-driven subtypes of major depressive disorder: a
systematic review. BMC Medicine,
10, Article 156. https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-10-156
Romeijn,
J. W. (2012). One size does not fit all: derivation of
a prior-adapted BIC. In D. Dieks, W. Gonzales, S. Hartmann,
M. Stöltzner, & M. Weber (Eds.), Probabilities, lws,
and structures (pp. 87 - 106). Springer.
2011
Romeijn,
J.-W., & Douven, I. (2011). A new resolution of
the Judy Benjamin problem. Mind,
120(479), 637-670. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzr051
van
de Schoot, R., Mulder, J., Hoijtink, H., van Aken, M. A. G., Dubas,
J. S., de Castro, B. O., Meeus, W., & Romeijn,
J.-W. (2011). An introduction to Bayesian model
selection for evaluating informative hypotheses.
European Journal of Developmental Psychology,
8(6), 713-729. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2011.621799
van
de Schoot, R., Hoijtink, H., Mulder, J., Van Aken, M. A. G., de
Castro, B. O., Meeus, W., & Romeijn, J.-W. (2011).
Evaluating expectations about negative emotional states of
aggressive boys using Bayesian model selection.
Developmental Psychology, 47(1),
203-212. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0020957
Romeijn,
J. W. (2011). Inductive logic and statistics.
In D. Gabbay, J. Woods, & S. Hartmann (Eds.), Handbook of
the History of Logic: Inductive Logic (pp. 625-650). Elsevier.
https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-52936-7.50015-X
Romeijn,
J. W., & Atkinson, D. (2011).
Learning juror competence: a generalized Condorcet Jury
Theorem. Philosophy, Politics and
Economics, 10(3), 237-262. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470594X10372317
Borsboom,
D., Wagenmakers, E.-J., & Romeijn, J.-W. (2011).
Mechanistic curiosity will not kill the Bayesian cat.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences,
34(4), 192-193. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X11000215
Romeijn,
J. W. (2011). (met H. Honing) The Value of Risky
Predictions. In R. J. Jorna, K. Liu, & N. Faber (Eds.),
Proceedings of the thirteenth International Conference on
Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations: Problems and
Possibilities of Computational Humanities (pp. 185 - 185).
Fryske Akademy-KNAW.
Kievit,
R. A., Romeijn, J. W., Waldorp, L. J., Wicherts, J.
M., Scholte, H. S., & Borsboom, D. (2011). Mind the Gap:
A psychometric approach to the reduction problem.
Psychological Inquiry, 22(2), 67-87.
Article 938337446. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2011.550181
Kievit,
R. A., Romeijn, J.-W., Waldorp, L. J., Wicherts, J.
M., Scholte, H. S., & Borsboom, D. (2011). Modeling Mind
and Matter: Reductionism and Psychological Measurement in Cognitive
Neuroscience. Psychological Inquiry,
22(2), 139-157. Article 938333439. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2011.567962
van
de Schoot, R., Hoijtink, H. J. A., & Romeijn, J.
W. (2011). Moving beyond traditional null hypothesis
testing: evaluating expectations directly.
Frontiers in Psychology, 2(24),
Article 24. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00024
Romeijn,
J.-W. (2011). Statistics as Inductive
Inference. In P. S. Bandyopadhyay, & M. R. Forster
(Eds.), Philosophy of Statistics (Vol. 7, pp. 751-774).
(Handbook of the Philosophy of Science). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-51862-0.50024-1
2010
Romeijn,
J. W. (2010). Carnap’s Logical foundations of
probability. In J. Williamson, & F. Russo (Eds.),
Key Terms in Logic (pp. 161 - 162). Continuum
Publishers.
Romeijn,
J. W. (2010). Editorial and Interview with members of
the Tilburg Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science.
The Reasoner, 4(7), 103 - 106.
Douven,
I., Horsten, L., & Romeijn, J.-W. (2010).
Probabilist Antirealism. Pacific
Philosophical Quarterly, 91(1), 38-63. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0114.2009.01357.x
Romeijn,
J. W., Haenni, R., Wheeler, G., & Williamson, J. (2010).
Probabilistic logic and probabilistic
neworks. Springer.
2009
Atkinson,
D., & Romeijn, J.-W. (2009). A
Condorcet Jury Theorem for Unknown Juror Competence.
Mathematics.
Romeijn,
J. W., Cozman, F., Haenni, R., Russo, F., Wheeler, G., &
Williamson, J. (2009). Combining probability and
logic. Journal of Applied Logic,
7(2), 131-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jal.2007.12.001
Romeijn,
J. W., & Roy, O. (2009). Combining probability and
logic. The Reasoner, 3(11),
12 - 12.
Romeijn,
J. W., Löwe, B., & Pacuit, E. (2009).
Foundations of the Formal Sciences VI: Probabilistic
Reasoning and Reasoning with Probabilities. (Studies in
Logic Series). College Publications.
Romeijn,
J. .-W. (2009). Inductive Logic and Statistics.
In EPRINTS-BOOK-TITLE University of Groningen.
Romeijn,
J.-W., Haenni, R., Wheeler, G., & Williamson, J. (2009).
Logical relations in a statistical problem. In B.
Loewe, & E. Pacuit (Eds.), Foundations of the Formal
Sciences VI: Probabilisitic Reasoning and Reasoning with
Probabilities. (pp. 49 - 81). (Studies in Logic Series).
College Publications.
Haenni,
R., Romeijn, J.-W., Wheeler, G., & Williamson, J.
(2009). Probabilistic Logic and Probabilistic
Networks. s.n.
2008
Romeijn,
J.-W., & Schoot, R. V. D. (2008). A Philosophical
Analysis of Bayesian model selection. In
EPRINTS-BOOK-TITLE University of Groningen.
Romeijn,
J. W., & van der Schoot, R. (2008). A
philosophical foundation of null, alternative and informative
hypotheses. In H. Hoijtink, I. Klugkist, & P. Boelen
(Eds.), Null, alternative and informative hypotheses (pp.
329 - 357). Springer.
Romeijn,
J.-W., & Meijs, W. (2008). De Revolutie der
probabilisten. Academische
Boekengids.
Romeijn,
J. W. (2008). Editorial. The
Reasoner, 2(9), 1 - 14.
Romeijn,
J.-W. (2008). Editorial.
Reasoner, 9(2).
Romeijn,
J. W. (2008). European Summer School on Logic,
Language, and Information. The
Reasoner, 2(9), 14.
Romeijn,
J. W. (2008). Interventies en conceptuele
veranderingen. Algemeen Nederlands tijdschrift
voor wijsbegeerte, 100(2), 121-128.
Romeijn,
J. W. (2008). Interview with Michiel van
Lambalgen. The Reasoner,
2(9), 2 - 3.
Romeijn,
J.-W. (2008). Leibniz, metafysicus van het
atoomtijdperk. BRES, (232).
Borsboom,
D., Romeijn, J.-W., & Wicherts, J. M. (2008).
Measurement invariance versus selection invariance: Is fair
selection possible? Psychological
Methods, 13(2), 75-98. https://doi.org/10.1037/1082-989X.13.2.75
Haenni,
R., Romeijn, J. W., Wheeler, G., & Williamson, J.
(2008). Possible semantics for a Common framework of
Probabilistic Logics. In V. N. Huynh, Y. Nakamori, H. Ono,
J. Lawry, V. Kreinovich, & H. T. Nguyen (Eds.), Interval /
probabilistic uncertainty and non-classical logics (pp. 268 -
279). Springer.
Romeijn,
J.-W. (2008). Review of Maria Carla Galavotti,
"Philosophical Introduction to Probability".
Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern
Physics, 39(1), 225-228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2007.08.003
Romeijn,
J. W. (2008). The all-too-flexible abductive method:
ATOM's normative status. Journal of clinical
psychology, 64(9), 1023-1036. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.20516
Romeijn,
J.-W. (2008). Vouwinstructies: hoe u de lege ruimte
weer terug in haar hoes krijgt. In Vijf jaar kunsthuis
Syb (Vol. 1: Oriëntatie). (Default journal). Kunsthuis
Syb.
Romeijn,
J.-W. (2008). Waarheid en taal.
BRES, (237).
Romeijn,
J. W., & Tamminga, A. (2008).
*Wetenschapsfilosofie* door Leon Horsten, Igor Douven en Erik
Weber. Algemeen Nederlands tijdschrift voor
wijsbegeerte, 100, 83-87.
2007
Romeijn,
J. W. (2007). Formal epistemology workshop.
The Reasoner, 1(3), 10 - 11.
Romeijn,
J. W., & Counihan, M. (2007). Madness
as Refuge. Simulacrum, 10 - 12.
Romeijn,
J. W. (2007). Progic Conference on Combining
Probability and Logic. The Reasoner,
1(6), 8 - 8.
Douven,
I., & Romeijn, J. W. (2007). The discursive
dilemma as a lottery paradox. Economics and
Philosophy, 23(3), 301 - 319.
2006
Romeijn,
J.-W. (2006). Analogical predictions.
Erkenntnis, (64), 253-280.
2005
Romeijn,
J. W. (2005). Bayesian inductive logic: inductive
predictions from statistical hypotheses. s.n.
Romeijn,
J. W. (2005). Enantiomorphy and Time.
International Studies in the Philosophy of
Science, 167(190).
Romeijn,
J.-W. (2005). Theory change and Bayesian statistical
inference. Philosophy of Science,
72(5), 1174-1186. https://doi.org/10.1086/508963
2004
Romeijn,
J.-W., & Raak, R. V. (2004). De stemwijzer moet
geen schoolmeester zijn. de Volkskrant,
Opinie.
Romeijn,
J. W. (2004). Hypotheses and inductive
Predictions. Synthese, 3, 333
- 364.
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