鶹AV

Eran Tal

Academic title(s): 

Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair

Eran Tal
Contact Information
Address: 

Department of Philosophy,鶹AV
Leacock Building
855 Sherbrooke St. W.
Montreal, QuebecH3A 2T7

Phone: 
514-398-5168
Email address: 
eran.tal [at] mcgill.ca
Office: 
Leacock 933
Research areas: 
Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of Measurement
Data Ethics
Biography: 

Eran Tal is Canada Research Chair in Data Ethics. Hejoined the Philosophy Department at 鶹AV in 2016, after holding fellowships at the University of Cambridge and Bielefeld University.He has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Toronto (2012) and an MA in History and Philosophy of Science from Tel Aviv University (2006).

Tal’s work deals with the epistemic and ethical dimensions of data collection, data analysis and data use in the sciences. He has contributed to thephilosophy of measurement, an area within philosophy of science that deals with the concepts and problems involved in designing, operating and interpreting measurement procedures.His current research projects concern the conceptual foundations of psychometrics, and the ethical and social implications of big dataand machine learning algorithms.

Selected publications: 
  • Tal, E. (2024) “”, in Tarja Knuuttila, Natalia Carrillo, and Rami Koskinen (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Scientific Modeling, London: Routledge, pp. 256-269.
  • Rodriguez Duque, S., Tal, E., and Barbic, S., (2024) “”, Measurement 225, 113993.
  • Tal, E., (2023) "", AIES '23: Proceedings of the 2023 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, pp. 312–321. ()
  • Tal, E. (2021), “”,Perspectives on Science29 (6), pp. 701-741. ()
  • Tal, E. (2020) “”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edward N. Zalta (ed.)
  • Tal, E. (2019), "", Philosophical Studies176 (4), pp. 853-878.
  • Tal, E. (2018) “”, Measurement 116, pp. 631-643.
  • Tal, E. (2017) “”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 65-66, pp. 33-45
  • Tal, E. (2017) “”, in Nicola Mößner and Alfred Nordmann (eds.), Reasoning in Measurement, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 233-253.
  • Tal, E. (2016) “”, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 772, 012001.
  • Tal, E. (2016) “”, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 67, pp. 297-335. (Co-winner of the 2016 Sir Karl Popper Prize)
  • Tal, E. (2013) “” Philosophy Compass 8 (12), pp. 1159–1173.
  • Tal, E. (2011) “” Philosophy of Science 78 (5), pp. 1082-1096.
  • Tal, E. (2011) “”, Synthese 182 (1), pp. 117-129.

Projects: 
  • 2019 - 2025 Canada Research Chair in Data Ethics (Tier 2), CAD 600,000
  • 2019 - 2020 "Psychiatric Illness in Canadian Youth: Mobilizing Measurement to Improve Clinical Care", Healthy Brains for Healthy Lives (HBHL) Knowledge Mobilization Grant, CAD99,733
  • 2017 – 2020 “The Conceptual Foundations of Psychometrics”, Research support for new academics, Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC), CAD 56,000
  • 2014 – 2016 “Economies of Uncertainty: Epistemological Perspectives on the Reform of the Metric System”, Marie Curie Research Fellowship, European Commission, EUR 231,000
  • 2012 – 2014 “Virtual Measurement: Novel Ways of Knowing in the Natural Sciences”, Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation,EUR 90,000

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