Kent W. Staley (PhD Johns Hopkins, 1998) works on problems relating to scientific experiment, theories of evidence, and developments in theoretical and experimental physics. He also works on the epistemology of scientific collaborations.

During the academic year 2008-2009, Staley will be on leave from teaching duties under a grant from the National Science Foundation in order to pursue research on the project "The Reach of Experiment: Reasoning Securely about Fundamental Physics."

Recent publications include:

• The Evidence for the Top Quark: Objectivity and Bias in Collaborative Experimentation (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
• "Error-statistical Elimination of Alternative Hypotheses." Forthcoming in Error and Methodology in Practice (K. Staley, D. Mayo, J. Millers, eds.), special issue of Synthese. Published online: DOI 10.1007/s11229-007-9294-2.
• "The CDF Collaboration and Argumentation Theory: The Role of Process in Objective Knowledge" (with Bill Rehg), in Perspectives in Science 16 (2008), 1--25..
• "Agency and Objectivity in the Search for the Top Quark," in Peter Achinstein (ed.), Scientific Evidence: Philosophical Theories and Applications (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005).
• "Robust Evidence and Secure Evidence Claims," in Philosophy of Science (2004).
• "What Experiment Did We Just Do? Counterfactual Error Statistics and Uncertainties about the Reference Class," in Philosophy of Science (2002).

Staley also serves on several departmental and university committees, leads a reading group on the History and Philosophy of Science, and advises Saint Louis University graduate students entering the philosophical job market.