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. Mayo graduated from Clark University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1974 and received her PhD in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979, with a thesis titled "Philosophy of Statistics". She taught undergraduate and graduate courses at Virginia Tech, focusing on logic, the scientific method, and philosophy of science. Her research centers on developing an account of experimental inference in science based on statistical reasoning and learning from error. In 1998, she received the Lakatos Award for her book *Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge*. She also received the Sturm Award for Excellence in Faculty Research from Phi Beta Kappa in 1997 and was inducted as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in July 2022.