Publications

Books

• Frege, G. (2013/2016). Grundgesetze der Arithmetik. Transl. and ed. by Ebert, P.A. and Rossberg, M. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Website]

Edited Books and Journals

• Ebert, P.A. and Rossberg, M. (Eds.) (2019). Essays on Frege’s Basic Laws of Arithmetic. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Ebert, P.A. and Rossberg, M. (Eds.) (2016). Abstractionism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Ebert, P.A. and Smith, M. (Eds.) (2012). Belief and Degree of Belief. Special issue of Dialectica 66(3).

Journal Articles (refereed)

• Ebert, P.A., Miller, D.L., Comerford, D., and Diggins, M. (2025). “End user and forecaster interpretations of the European Avalanche Danger Scale.” Risk Analysis, 45(8), 2069–2465.
• Ebert, P.A., Durbach, I.N., and Field, C. (2024). “Gratuitous Risk: danger and recklessness perception of adventure sports participants.” Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, 51(2), 267–284.
• Ebert, P.A. and Durbach, I.N. (2023). “Expert and lay judgements of danger and recklessness in adventure sports.” Journal of Risk Research, 26(2), 133–146.
• Ebert, P.A. and Milne, P. (2022). “Methodological and conceptual challenges in rare and severe event forecast verification.” Natural Hazard and Earth System Science, 22(2), 1–19. Open Access.
• Ebert, P.A. and Morreau, M. (2022). “Safety in Numbers: how social choice theory can inform avalanche risk management.” Journal for Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning. Open Access.
• Ebert, P.A., Smith, M., and Durbach, I. (2020). “Varieties of Risk.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 101(2), 432–455. Open Access.
• Ebert, P.A. (2019). “Bayesian Reasoning in avalanche terrain: a theoretical study.” Journal for Adventure Education and Outdoor Research, 19(1), 84–95. Open Access.
• Ebert, P.A., Smith, M., and Durbach, I. (2018). “Lottery Judgements: a philosophical and experimental study.” Philosophical Psychology, 31(1), 110–138. Open Access.
• Ebert, P.A. and Freibichler, W. (2017). “Nudge management: applying behavioural science to increase knowledge worker productivity.” Journal for Organization Design, 6(4), 1–6. Open Access.
• Cook, R.T. and Ebert, P.A. (2016). “Frege’s Recipe.” The Journal of Philosophy, cxiii(7), 309–345.
• Ebert, P.A. (2016). “Frege on Sense-Identity, Basic Law V, and Analysis.” Philosophia Mathematica, 24(1), 9–29.
• Ebert, P.A. (2015). “Dummett’s Criticism of the Context Principle.” Grazer Philosophische Studien, 92, 23–51.
• Green, J.J., Ebert, P.A., and Rossberg, M. (2015). “The Convenience of the Typesetter.” The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, 21(1), 15–30.
• Ebert, P.A. and Robertson, S. (2013). “A Plea for Risk.” Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 73, 45–64.
• Ebert, P.A. and Rossberg, M. (2009). “Cantor on Frege’s Foundations of Arithmetic.” History and Philosophy of Logic, 30(4), 341–348.
• Ebert, P.A. and Shapiro, S. “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” Synthese, 170(3), 415–441.
• Ebert, P.A. “A Puzzle about Ontological Commitments.” Philosophia Mathematica, 16(2), 209–226.
• Ebert, P.A. and Rossberg, M. “What is the purpose of Neo-Logicism?” Traveaux de Logique (18), 33–61.
• Ebert, P.A. (2005). “Transmission of Warrant-Failure and the Notion of Epistemic Analyticity.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 83(4), 505–21.
• Ebert, P.A. and Cook, R.T. (2005). “Abstraction and Identity.” Dialectica, 59(2), 1–19.

Articles in Collections

• Ebert, P.A. and Rossberg, M. (forthcoming). “Gottlob Frege.” In Cambridge Companion to the History of Analytic Philosophy, ed. M. Rossberg. Cambridge University Press.
• Ebert, P.A., Cook, R.T., and Rossberg, M. (2022). “Frege’s Concept-Script.” In Encyclopaedia of Proof Systems, Chapter 2, pp.2–7. London: College Publications.
• Ebert, P.A. and Rossberg, M. (2019). “Mathematical Creationism in Frege’s Grundgesetze?” In Ebert, P.A. and Rossberg, M. (Eds.), Essays on Frege’s Basic Laws of Arithmetic, Chapter 13, pp.325–342. Oxford University Press.
• Ebert, P.A. and Rossberg, M. (2019). “Contemporary Reviews of Frege’s Grundgesetze.” In Ebert, P.A. and Rossberg, M. (Eds.), Essays on Frege’s Basic Laws of Arithmetic, Chapter 22, pp.637–651. Oxford University Press.
• Ebert, P.A. (2016). “A Framework for Implicit Definitions and the A priori.” In Ebert, P.A. and Rossberg, M. (Eds.), Abstractionism, Chapter 7, pp.133–160. Oxford University Press.
• Ebert, P.A. and Rossberg, M. (2016). “Introduction to Abstractionism.” In Ebert, P.A. and Rossberg, M. (Eds.), Abstractionism, Chapter 1, pp.13–33. Oxford University Press.
• Ebert, P.A. and Rossberg, M. (2013). “Translators’ Introduction.” In Frege, G., Basic Laws of Arithmetic, pp.xiii–xxxix. Oxford University Press.
• Ebert, P.A. and Smith, M. (2012). “Introduction: Outright Beliefs and Degrees of Belief.” Dialectica, 66(3), 1–4.
• Ebert, P.A. and Robertson, S. (2010). “Mountaineering and the Value of Self-sufficiency.” In S. Schmid (Ed.), Climbing — Philosophy for Everyone, Chapter 7, pp.93–105. Routledge. Shortlisted for the Boardman-Tasker Award 2010.
• Ebert, P.A. and Robertson, S. (2007). “Adventure, Climbing Excellence and the Practice of ‘Bolting’.” In M. McNamee (Ed.), Philosophy, Risk and Adventure Sports. Routledge.
• Ebert, P.A. and Rossberg, M. (2009). “Ed Zalta’s version of Neo-Logicism — a friendly letter of complaint.” In H. Leitgeb and A. Hieke (Eds.), Reduction – Abstraction – Analysis, pp.303–307.

Conference Proceedings

• Ebert, P.A. (2024). “End user Interpretation of the European Avalanche Danger Scale: A case study from Scotland.” Proceedings ISSW, Tromsø, Norway, 1626–1632.
• Ebert, P.A. (2019). “A Bayesian Perspective on Avalanche Decision-Making and the Relevance of Stability Tests.” Proceedings ISSW, Innsbruck, Austria, pp.1334–1338.
• Ebert, P.A. and Photopoulou, T. (2013). “Bayes’ beacon: avalanche prediction, competence and evidence for competence.” Proceedings ISSW, Grenoble, France, pp.363–70.

Discussion Notes and Book Reviews

• Ebert, P.A. (2017). Review of Abstraction and Infinity by P. Mancosu. NDPR.
• Ebert, P.A. (2015). Review of Reading Frege’s Grundgesetze by R.G. Heck Jr. Philosophia Mathematica, 23(2), 289–293.
• Ebert, P.A. (2014). Review of Frege’s Theorem by R.G. Heck Jr. Philosophical Quarterly, 64(254), 166–169.
• Ebert, P.A. (2011). Review of A Critical Introduction to the Philosophy of Gottlob Frege by G.E. Rossado Haddock. Philosophia Mathematica, 19(3), 363–367.
• Ebert, P.A. (2010). “Going to ground with concepts” (review of C.S. Jenkins). Metascience, 19(2), 217–220.
• Ebert, P.A. and Cook, R.T. (2004). “Discussion Note: Kit Fine’s Limits of Abstraction.” British Journal of Philosophy of Science, 55(4), 791–800.

Newspaper, Magazine and Other Articles

• Schubert, T., Zsolt, K., and Ebert, P.A. (2023). “Optimal aus Fehlern lernen.” Schweiz Ärzteztg. 104(40), 72–73.
• Ebert, P.A. and Zweifel, B. (2022). “Wisdom of crowds in den Bergen: Wie fällen wir gute Gruppenentscheide?” Bergsteigen, 121, 32–38.
• Ebert, P.A. and Freibichler, W. (2017). “Nudge Management: Was der Nobelpreis 2017 für den Aufsichtsrat bedeutet.” Der Aufsichtsrat, 11, 160–61.
• Ebert, P.A., Freibichler, W., and Schubert, T. (2016). “Nudge Management — Wie Führungskräfte kluges Selbstmanagement anstossen.” Zeitschrift für Führung und Organisation, 86, 82–86.
• Ebert, P.A. (2015). “Know your competence.” The Avalanche Review, 33(4).
• Ebert, P.A. and Robertson, S. (2014). “[Riskant]–[Trotzdem]–[Wegen]: Ein Plädoyer für das Risiko im Bergsport.” Alpenvereinsjahrbuch BERG 2014, 138, pp.196–202.
• Ebert, P.A. (2008). “What Mathematical Knowledge could not be.” Aporia, 1(1), 46–70.

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