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