Dr. R.J.C.M. (Richard) Starmans

Buys Ballotgebouw
Princetonplein 5
Kamer BBL-526
3584 CC Utrecht

Dr. R.J.C.M. (Richard) Starmans

Secretary to the Board
Algorithmic Data Analysis
+31 30 253 4083
r.j.c.m.starmans@uu.nl

Publications

2024

Scholarly publications

Starmans, R. J. C. M., & Van der Laan, M. J. (Accepted/In press). Beyond regularisation... Highly Adaptive LASSO: Voorbij regularisatie...Highly Adaptive LASSO. STAtOR, 25(2).
Starmans, R. J. C. M., van Dijk, B., Palmerino, C. R., de Regt, H., & van Delft, A. (2024). Serendipity or the paradox of the unsought finding: Serendipiteit of de paradox van de ongezochte vondst (Special Issue). Manuscript in preparation.
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2024). Serendipity; an introduction: Serendipiteit; een inleiding. Manuscript in preparation.
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2024). Proofs of God in the 21st century: Godsbewijzen in de 21e eeuw. Filosofie-Tijdschrift, 34(3).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2024). Telescopes, experiments and philosophers: Telescopen, experimenten en filosofen. Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Natuurkunde, 90(8).
Starmans, R. J. C. M., & Van der Laan, M. J. (2024). TMLE, Superlearner, HAL and the roadmap towards a new Philosophy of Statistics: Dialogues concerning the historical and philosophical roots of the crisis in Statistics and Data Science. Web publication/site, .
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2024). Generative Artificial Intelligence: from dawn till doomsday: Generatieve Kunstmatige Intelligentie: van dageraad tot doomsday. Filosofie-Tijdschrift, 34(2).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2024). Between scientism and skepticism; a plea for reason and rationality beyond the Zeitgeist: Tussen scepticisme en sciëntisme; een pleidooi voor rede en rationaliteit voorbij de tijdgeest. Filosofie-Tijdschrift, 34(1).

2023

Scholarly publications

Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2023). Clio's stiefkind en de geschiedenis van het probabilistische denken. STAtOR, 24(2), 13-19.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/435967/STAtOR_2023_2_web.pdf?sequence=1
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2023). On physical and philosophical time: Over natuurkundige en filosofische tijd. Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Natuurkunde, 89(6).
Starmans, R. J. C. M., & van Dijk, B. (2023). The ideal of the Unity of Science, Special Issue Filosofie Tijdschrift (in Dutch). Filosofie-Tijdschrift, 33(6).
Starmans, R. J. C. M., & van Dijk, B. (2023). The ideal of the unity of science: an introduction: Het ideaal van eenheidswetenschap, een inleiding. Filosofie-Tijdschrift, 33(6), 2-3.
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2023). On the last bastion and the naturalization of philosophy: Over het laatste bastion en de naturalisering van de filosofie. Filosofie-Tijdschrift, 33(5).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2023). Robert Merton's belated right; about constitutions, norms, crises and the genealogy of serendipity Het verlate gelijk van Robert Merton; over constituties, normen, crises en de genealogie van de serendipiteit. Filosofie-Tijdschrift, 33(3), 39-47.
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2023). Philosophy, Science and the Architecture of Knowledge: Filosofie, Wetenschap en de Architectuur van de Kennis. Filosofie-Tijdschrift, 33(1), 44-49.

2022

Scholarly publications

Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2022). Statistiek en Filosofie: een voortschrijdende samenspraak. STAtOR, 23(3).
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/425396/STAtOR_2018_4_1_40_LR_spreads.pdf?sequence=1
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2022). Voorbij conflicthypothese en rationele theologie: kanttekeningen bij de moeizame samenspraak tussen wetenschap en geloof. Filosofie-Tijdschrift, 32(6).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2022). Wetenschap en geloof: een inleiding. Filosofie-Tijdschrift, 32(6).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2022). Special Issue on Science and Belief. Filosofie-Tijdschrift, 32(6).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2022). De Clinamen of de eerste zwenking van de atomen. Filosofie-Tijdschrift, 32(5).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2022). A Greek Tragedy; on Einstein, Bergson and Time. Filosofie-Tijdschrift, 32(3).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2022). De reikwijdte van de counterfactual; over causaliteit, potential outcomes en grafische modellen. STAtOR, 23(1), 38-43.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/423135/STAtOR_2022_1_38_43_Starmans.pdf?sequence=1
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2022). The Sokal affair in retrospect; about parodies, crises and mistrust in science: De Sokal-affaire in retrospectief; over parodieën, crises en wantrouwen in wetenschap. Filosofie-Tijdschrift, 32(1).

2021

Scholarly publications

Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2021). Special issue on Artificial Intelligence (in Dutch). Filosofie-Tijdschrift, 31(4).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2021). The against-the-facts world of the counterfactual; obscure thought experiment or capstone of causal reasoning: De tegenfeitelijke wereld van de counterfacutal; obscuur gedachte-experiment of sluitstuk van de causale redenering. Filosofie-Tijdschrift, 31(5).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2021). Beyond Utopia; Artificial Intelligence in the center of society. Filosofie Magazine, 31(5).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2021). On old and new allegories of the thinking machine: the inverted triptych of data, information and knowledge. Filosofie, 31(4).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2021). Introduction: The heritage of Alan Turing. Filosofie, 31(4).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2021). Artificial Intelligence; Special Issue Tijdchrift Filosofie. Filosofie, 31(4).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2021). Emerson and the intellectual American Independence: Review of the book “De scheppende rede; introductie tot het werk van Ralph Waldo Emerson”, J. Lutters, 2020. Filosofie, 31(2), 62-63.
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2021). Pathanalysis, structural equations modelling and the quest for Explainable AI and data science. STAtOR, 22(2).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2021). On the fragility of Goodness: luck, morality and the scope of an explanatory science. Filosofie, 31(3).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2021). The heritage of Pierre Duhem: on conflict hypothesis, underdetermination and bias-variance tradeoff: De erfenis van Pierre Duhem; over conflicthypothese, onderdeterminatie en bias-variance-tradeoff. Filosofie, 31(1).

2020

Scholarly publications

Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2020). Autonomous Systems and Moral machines: towards a new test ground for ethics (in Dutch). Filosofie, 30(6).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2020). Het temmen van het toeval: kanttekeningen bij de probabilistische wending in de AI: The taming of chance: considerations on the probabilistic turn in AI. STAtOR, 21(4).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2020). Over confusiematrices, pooldiagrammen en de orde van de dingen. STAtOR, 21(3).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2020). De tragiek van een heterodoxe denker: Pascals nagelaten belijdenis. Filosofie, 30(4).
Starmans, R. J. C. M., & Munnik, R. (2020). American Pragmatism, Special Issue Tijdschrift Filosofie (in Dutch). Filosofie, 30(3).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2020). Between tradition and innovation: Pragmatism at the intersection of Philosophy and Exact Sciences (in Dutch). Filosofie, 30( 3).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2020). Explorations and encounters in the hinterland of Philosophy and Physics (in Dutch). Filosofie, 30(1).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2020). Prometheus unbound or Paradise regained: the concept of causality in the contemporary AI-data science debate. Journal de la SFdS, 161(1), 4-41. http://journal-sfds.fr/article/view/780
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/407647/780_Texte_de_l_article_2973_1_10_20200630.pdf?sequence=1

2019

Scholarly publications

Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2019). Pandora's bruidsschat; tussen technologisch determinisme en sociaal -constructivisme. Filosofie, 29(5).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2019). On the Usefulness of Foundational Crises: Philosophy and Practice of Data Science (in Dutch) Over het nut van grondslagencrises: Filosofie en Praktijk van Data Science. STAtOR, 2019(3), 30-35.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/389447/Pagina_s_van_STAtOR_2019_3_1_40_LR_spreads.pdf?sequence=1
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2019). Heisenberg: over statistiek, onzekerheid en filosofie. STAtOR, 2019(4), 22-27.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/389620/STAtOR_2019_3_Starmans_1.pdf?sequence=1
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2019). Cause and effect; considerations in contemporary thinking about causality (in Dutch) Oorzaak en gevolg;overwegingen bij het hedendaagse denken over causaliteit. Filosofie, 29(3), 42-49.
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2019). On the degeneration and revision of phenomenology (in Dutch): Over de verwording en de revisie van de fenomenologie. Filosofie, 29(2).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2019). Beyond apology; theory of probability and fallible thinking (in Dutch): De apologie voorbij; kansrekening en het feilbare denken. STAtOR, 20(1), 34-37.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/380435/STAtOR_2019_1_34_37_Starmans.pdf?sequence=1

2018

Scholarly publications

Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2018). Statistics and Causality; progressive liaison or laborious dialogue (in Dutch). STAtOR, 19(4).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2018). Edmund Husserl: on the Unity and the Crisis of the Sciences (in Dutch). Filosofie, 28(6).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2018). Towards a new testing ground for ethics (in dutch): Naar een nieuwe proeftuin voor de ethiek. Filosofie, 28(5).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2018). Towards a mechanistic Philosophy of Nature; the atomical dynamics of Isaac Beeckman (in Dutch). Filosofie, 28(4).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2018). A contemporary Eutyphro-dilemma: on Deep Learning and the columns of oracular language (in Dutch). Filosofie, 28(3).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2018). Expedition Robinson: from ecological correlation toward multi level analysis. STAtOR, 19(2), 24-30.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/367863/Expeditie.pdf?sequence=1
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2018). Langs de spelonken van de moraal: over ethiek, statistiek en data science. STAtOR, 19(1), 30-37.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/364935/Spelonken.pdf?sequence=1
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2018). "And further away their evening-red storms and falls"; on Newton, Goethe and the Light (in Dutch). Filosofie, 28(1).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2018). The Predicament of Truth: on Statistics, Causality, Physics and the Philosophy of Science. In Mark J. Van der Laan & Sherri Rose (Eds.), Targeted Learning in Data Science: Causal Inference for Complex Longitudinal Studies. Springer Series in Statistics, Springer. Springer.

2017

Scholarly publications

Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2017). The new house of Salomon: Peter Galison and the empirical tradition (in Dutch). Filosofie, 27(4).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2017). Statistics and the Philosophy of Science: on the use of ornithology for the parakeet (in Dutch). STAtOR, 18(2).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2017). The end of Theory or the unreasonableness of data (in Dutch). Filosofie, 27(3).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2017). The triptych of the het Bayesian Paradigm: Confirmation, Inference and Algorithmics (in Dutch). Filosofie, 27(1).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2017). "From Heraclitus to Shannon: the velvet revolution of data in context and flux" (in Dutch). STAtOR, 18(1), 42-51.

Professional publications

Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2017). Speechacts in Perspective: Austin, Searle, Habermas and ICT (in Dutch). Filosofie, 27(2).

2016

Scholarly publications

Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2016). Shannon; Information, Entropy and the Probabilistic Worldview (in Dutch). Filosofie, 26(6).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2016). Artefacts, Symbols and Ideas; Poetry as the Art of Spiritualized Number(in Dutch). Filosofie, 26(5).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2016). Artefacts, Symbols and Ideas; on mathematics, mysticism and poetry. Part1:Two ways to mathematics and mysticism (in Dutch). Filosofie, 26(3).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2016). The Mind as the Matrix of all Matter; Max Plancks' unintended Revolution (in Dutch). Filosofie, 26(1).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2016). The Advent of Data Science: some considerations on the unreasonable effectiveness of data. In P. Buhlmann, P. Drineas, M. Kane, & M. J. Van der Laan (Eds.), Handbook of Big Data: Handbooks of Modern Statistical Methods (Handbooks of Modern Statistical Methods). Chapman & Hall/CRC.

2015

Scholarly publications

Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2015). Between Hobbes and Turing: George Boole and the Laws of Thought (in Dutch). Filosofie, 25(6).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2015). On the banks of the river Rubicon (in Dutch). STAtOR, 16(3), 30-33.
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2015). On Time and Relativity: the Einstein-Bergson Controversy (in Dutch). Filosofie, 25(4).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2015). With Google toward the automatic Statistician (in Dutch). STAtOR, 16(2).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2015). The Ant, the Spider and the Bee; Bacons unintended Preamble to the Data Science Debate (in Dutch). Filosofie, 25(3).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2015). The Likelihood. In H. Willemsen, & P. De Wind (Eds.), Woordenboek Filosofie Garant-Uitgevers.
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2015). Bayes Theorem. In H. Willemsen, & P. De Wind (Eds.), Woordenboek Filosofie Garant-Uitgevers.
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2015). Bayesianism. In H. Willemsen, & P. De Wind (Eds.), Woordenboek Filosofie Garant-Uitgevers.
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2015). Science and Belief: The Letter to the Grand Duchess (in Dutch). Filosofie, 25(2).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2015). Bayesian Confirmation Theory. In H. Willemsen, & P. De Wind (Eds.), Woordenboek Filosofie Garant-Uitgevers.
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2015). Contemporary Dystopias; the Fall of Icarus and the Wrath of the Machines. Filosofie, 25(1).

2014

Scholarly publications

Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2014). Price, Bayes, and the Order of Things. STAtOR, 15(3).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2014). Apologetics and Exegesis of the Reversal of Probabilities (in Dutch). Filosofie, 24(6).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2014). Vondel, Logarithms and the Malleability of Numbers (in Dutch). Filosofie, 24(4).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2014). A space travel beyond the Zeitgeist; Huygens as an observer of the cosmos. Filosofie, 24(3), 45-50.
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2014). Peirce, Pragmatism and the Erosion of Determinism (in Dutch). Filosofie, 24(2).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2014). The pursuit of thruth in light of Quine's problematic physicalism. Filosofie, 24(1).
van der Laan, M. J., & Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2014). Entering the Era of Data Science: Targeted Learning and the Integration of Statistics and Computational Data Analysis. In Advances in Statistics (Volume 2014). Hindawi Publishing Corporation.
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2014). The Road to Kopenhagen: Statistics, Physics and Uncertainty. STAtOR, 15(2).
van der Laan, M. J., & Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2014). Entering the Era of Data Science: Targeted Learning and the Integration of Statistics and Computational Data Analysis. Bepress, University of Califormia.

2013

Scholarly publications

Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2013). Picasso, Hegel and the Era of Big Data (in Dutch). STAtOR, 24(2).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2013). Boethius, Bernoulli and the Art of Conjecturing (in Dutch). Filosofie, 23(5).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2013). Beyond the Pillars of Hercules; Concept of Man, Complexity and the Scandal of Computation (in Dutch). Filosofie, 23(1).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2013). Idols and Ideals; Induction and the Hypothetico-Deductive Model (in Dutch). Filosofie, 23(2).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2013). Surrender or Absurdity; Kierkegaard, Camus and the Perfectibility of Man (in Dutch). Filosofie, 23(6).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2013). Perrin and the Partisans of the Void (in Dutch). Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Natuurkunde, 79(12).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2013). From Atlantis to Big Data: the Apory of the Completeness of Knowledge (in Dutch). Filosofie, 23(4).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2013). The Atoms and Reality (in Dutch). Filosofie, 23(3).
Starmans, R. J. C. M., & van der Laan, M. J. (2013). Inferential Statistics versus Machine Learning; a Prelude to Reconciliation (in Dutch). STAtOR, 24(2).

2012

Scholarly publications

Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2012). Aethalides and the lost Road to Lethe (in Dutch). Filosofie, 22(5).
Rose, S., Starmans, R. J. C. M., & van der Laan, M. J. (2012). Targeted Learning for Causality and Statistical Analysis in Medical Research. Bepress.
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2012). Transhumanism and the Inconveniences of Evolutionary Ethics (in Dutch). Filosofie, 22(4).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2012). Statistics, Discomfort and the Human Dimension (in Dutch). STAtOR, 13(3).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2012). Disputed Paradigms and alleged Revolutions; the difficult Irony of Stigler's Law (in Dutch). Filosofie, 22(2).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2012). Russell's Mistake; Causality between Metaphysics and Eliminative Materialism (in Dutch). Filosofie, 22(3).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2012). The delayed Fulfillment of the Bayesian Promise (in Dutch). STAtOR, 13(2).

Professional publications

Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2012). The World of Values; Statistics, Evolution and Ethics (in Dutch). STAtOR, 13(3).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2012). Ethics and Statistics; the Progress of a laborious Dialogue (in Dutch). Filosofie, 22(6).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2012). The Grammar of Science and the Naturalistic Fallacy (in Dutch). Filosofie, 22(1).

2011

Scholarly publications

Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2011). The Reality behind the Model and the Cracks in the Mirror of Nature. Filosofie, 21(5).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2011). Wikipedia, Ariadne's Thread or the Devolution of Diderot's Ideal (in Dutch). Filosofie, 21(3).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2011). Models, Inference and Truth; Probabilistic Reasoning in the Information Era. In M. J. Van der Laan, & S. Rose (Eds.), Targeted Learning; Causal Inference for Observational and Experimental Data (pp. 1-20). (Springer Series in Statistics). Springer.
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2011). Thomas Hobbes' Anticipations and the Emergence of Computing. BNVKI newsletter, 28(1).

Professional publications

Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2011). On Machines and Miracles; the Delayed Recognition of Charles Babbage (in Dutch). Filosofie, 21(6).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2011). Computability, the Reconciliation with Clio and the Philosophical Heritage of Turing, Church and Post (in Dutch). Filosofie, 21(1).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2011). Pascal, Hume and the Scope of the Probabilistic Argument (in Dutch). Filosofie, 21(4).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2011). Karl Pearson between Statistics and Philosophy (in Dutch). STAtOR, 12(2).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2011). Charles Babbage and the Question Concerning Technology. BNVKI newsletter, 28(6).

2010

Professional publications

Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2010). Between Vygotsky and Churchland; the Allegory of the Thinking Machine (in Dutch). Filosofie, 20(5), 32-37.
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2010). The Fourth Revolution? (in Dutch). Filosofie, 20(2).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2010). Thomas Reid, the Veil of Perception, and the Pillars of AI. BNVKI newsletter, 27(1).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2010). Philosophy of Technology and the Project of Computer Science (in Dutch). Filosofie, 20(2), 46-49.
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2010). From Parmenides to Pearson; Variation, Change, Information (in Dutch). Filosofie, 20(4).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2010). Between Scylla and Charybdis: Philosophy of Technology and Personal Identity (in Dutch). Filosofie, 20(6).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2010). Thomas Reid and the Persistence of Common Sense. The Reasoner, 4(4).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2010). In the footsteps of Alan Turing; Towards a Philosophy of Computer Science (in Dutch). Filosofie, 20(3), 43-49.
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2010). Formal epistemology and rational belief. The Reasoner, 4(1), 9-11.

2009

Professional publications

Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2009). Anselm's legacy: the Ontological Proof and the Validation of Reason. BNVKI newsletter, 26(6).
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2009). The Matrix and the Rise of Philosophy of Computer Science. BNVKI newsletter, 26(4), 72-76.

2008

Professional publications

Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2008). Some Trends in Funding Artificial Intelligence Research. BNVKI newsletter, 25(1), 5-10.

2007

Professional publications

Weigand, H., & Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2007). Onderzoek Informatiesystemen onder zware druk. De automatisering gids, 41(15), 15.
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2007). De markt voor informatica-onderzoek: competitie en coöperatie. InformaticaOnderzoek, 4(3), 8-9.

2006

Professional publications

Weigand, H., & Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2006). Enterprise Information Systems as a Research Area. BNVKI newsletter, 23(6), 127-134.
Starmans, R. J. C. M., & Meyer, J.-JC. (2006). Funding research in Computer Science. BNVKI newsletter, 23(5), 97-102.

2005

Scholarly publications

Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2005). Current Topics in IKS-Research; A Quantitative Approach. BNVKI newsletter, 22(6), 128-135.
Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2005). Kunstmatige Intelligentie, de verlengde levenscyclus van "Knowledge Representation and Reasoning". De connectie, 1(4), 8-12.

2004

Professional publications

Starmans, R. J. C. M. (2004). Informatie- en Kennissystemen in Nederland. InformaticaOnderzoek, 1(2), 4-6.