American formal epistemologist who has made technical contributions to confirmation theory, formal epistemology, and the logic of evidence.
Developed a formal analysis of the paradoxes of confirmation (raven paradox, grue) using Bayesian probability theory. Studies of the Paradox of Confirmation: the resolution depends on background knowledge about base rates.
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