Position: Current PhD student
School and/or Centres: School of Philosophy
Prior to starting her PhD, Magdalen completed a BA and BPPE (Hons) at the ANU. Magdalen started her PhD candidature at the ANU in 2024. Her research focuses on decision-making under severe uncertainty. In particular, she is interested in the techniques that have been proposed to deal with challenges related to making predictions about climate variables and evaluating climate-related outcomes and interventions.
Decision theory; formal epistemology; climate ethics; climate policy.
Elmitt, M. (2023). Review of Beyond Uncertainty: Reasoning with Unknown Possibilities by Katie Steele & H. Orri Stefànsson. Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, 29 (2):294–296.
Thomassin, A., Elmitt, M., Yap, M. and K. Jordan (2020). Exploring Economic Prosperity for Aboriginal Peoples in New South Wales: Review of the literature. Report to Aboriginal Affairs NSW. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University.
Andrew Donald Campbell Memorial Prize (2023)
ANU Chancellor’s Letter of Commendation (2019, 2020)
2024. Tutor for PHIL2116: PPE Integration 2, Australian National University.
2024. Tutor for PHIL2122: Philosophy and Public Policy, Australian National University.
2023. Tutor for PHIL1013: Knowledge, Self and Society, University of Sydney.