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Colin Howson

Disciplines:
epistemology
philosophy of science

Summary

British philosopher who has developed a Bayesian account of scientific reasoning and defended probabilism against its critics.

Core Contribution

Scientific Reasoning: The Bayesian Approach (with Peter Urbach): the most systematic defense of Bayesian confirmation theory — Bayesianism can handle all the traditional problems of induction, falsificationism, and scientific method.

Notable Works & Achievements

Scientific Reasoning: The Bayesian Approach

Hume's Problem

Historical Influences

Rudolf Carnap Frank Ramsey

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Philosophy of Science

Contemporaries & Peers

Peter Urbach Clark Glymour

Minds Influenced

Bayesian Philosophy of Science

Intellectual Posterity

Bayesian Philosophy of Science

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