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* ''Hume's Problem: Induction and the Justification of Belief'', (Oxford University Press, 2000);
* ''Hume's Problem: Induction and the Justification of Belief'', (Oxford University Press, 2000);
* ''Scientific Reasoning: the Bayesian Approach'' (with Peter Urbach), Open Court Publishing Company, 1989; second edition 1993; third edition 2005.
* ''Scientific Reasoning: the Bayesian Approach'' (with Peter Urbach), Open Court Publishing Company, 1989; 2nd ed 1993; 3rd ed 2005 ISBN 978-0812695786


===Articles===
===Articles===

Revision as of 11:31, 6 April 2007

Prof Colin Howson a British philosopher who is is Professor of Logic, at the LSE

His research interests include Philosophy of science, and foundations of probability. He was President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science 2003-2005[1]

Publications

Books

  • Hume's Problem: Induction and the Justification of Belief, (Oxford University Press, 2000);
  • Scientific Reasoning: the Bayesian Approach (with Peter Urbach), Open Court Publishing Company, 1989; 2nd ed 1993; 3rd ed 2005 ISBN 978-0812695786

Articles

His articles include:

  • ‘Evidence and Confirmation’, and ‘Induction and the Uniformity of Nature’, A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, ed. W H Newton-Smith, Blackwell (2000)
  • ‘The Logic of Personal Probability’, The Foundations of Bayesianism, eds. D. Corfield and J. Williamson, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 137-161 (2001)
  • ‘Bayesianism in Statistics’, in Bayes’s Theorem, ed. Richard Swinburne, The British Academy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 39-71 (2002)
  • ‘Bayesian Evidence’, in Observation and Experiment in the Natural and Social Sciences, ed. M Galavotti, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 301-321 (2003)
  • ‘Probability and Logic’, Journal of Applied Logic, 1, 151-165 (2003)
  • ‘Why Are We Here?’, Short Letters to The Times, Times Books, London: Harpercollins, 167 (2003)
  • ‘Ramsey’s Big Idea’, Festsschrift for Frank Ramsey, ed. M.J. Frapolli, Rodopi
  • "God and Science", debate with Nicholas Beale in Prospect May 1998 pp14-17[2]

Notes & References