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Branden Fitelson

Disciplines:
epistemology
philosophy of science
philosophy of mathematics/formal philosophy

Summary

American formal epistemologist who has made technical contributions to confirmation theory, formal epistemology, and the logic of evidence.

Core Contribution

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.

Notable Works & Achievements

Studies of the Paradox of Confirmation

Formal Epistemology

Historical Influences

Rudolf Carnap Carl Hempel

Intellectual Lineage

Formal Epistemology

Contemporaries & Peers

Patrick Maher Franz Huber

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

Formal Confirmation Theory

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