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Professor '''Colin Howson''' a British philosopher who is is Professor of Logic, at the [[London School of Economics|LSE]] |
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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<ref>[http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/philosophyLogicAndScientificMethod/WhosWho/staffhomepages/Howson.htm Basic bio-info from LSE website]</ref> |
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<ref>[http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/philosophyLogicAndScientificMethod/WhosWho/staffhomepages/Howson.htm Basic bio-info from LSE website]</ref> |
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* "God and Science", debate with [[Nicholas Beale]] in [[Prospect (magazine)|Prospect]] May 1998 pp14-17<ref> [http://www.trent.dougherty.net/Papers/Howson.pdf scanned version] - [http://www.starcourse.org/discussion/ expanded version]</ref> |
* "God and Science", debate with [[Nicholas Beale]] in [[Prospect (magazine)|Prospect]] May 1998 pp14-17<ref> [http://www.trent.dougherty.net/Papers/Howson.pdf scanned version] - [http://www.starcourse.org/discussion/ expanded version]</ref> |
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Revision as of 13:39, 7 April 2007
Professor 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); ISBN 978-0-19-825038-8 Peter Lipton in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science describes the book as "Delivered with pace and consistent intelligence" and suggests that it "covers a great deal of ground, including Hume's sceptical argument, the new riddle of induction, naturalised epistemology, reliabilism, scientific realism, deductivism, objective chances and Hume on miracles, all from a Bayesian perspective...often provocative and repeatedly enlightening."[2]
- Scientific Reasoning: the Bayesian Approach (with Peter Urbach), Open Court Publishing Company, 1989; 2nd ed 1993; 3rd ed 2005 ISBN 978-0812695786 - reviewed eg here
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[3]