Richard Bevan Braithwaite
Richard Bevan Braithwaite (born January 15, 1900 in Banbury , † April 21, 1990 in Cambridge ) was a British philosopher and scientific theorist.
After studying mathematics, physics and philosophy in Somerset Bootham and at Cambridge University , he was in 1924 Fellow at King's College and Lecturer in Moral Science (1928-34), Sidgwick Lecturer in Moral Science (1934-1953) and Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy (1953-1967). He was President of the Mind Association and President of the Aristotelian Society, also co-founder of the Philosophy of Science Group, which later became The British Society for the Philosophy of Science , of which he was President from 1961 to 1963.
He became a member of the British Academy in 1957 . In 1948 he became a member of the Anglican Church.
Braithwaite combined logical empiricism with the British empiricism of David Hume in his works . He made contributions to the philosophical basis of probability theory and statistics . He was one of the first to promote the use of game theory to solve the problem of hypothesis selection in science , ethics, and the philosophy of religion . According to Hume, he advocated the idea that scientific laws are not necessary, but a collection of correlations ( regularity theory ). According to this, there is no metaphysical difference between accidental and necessary regularities; Regularities in science take the form of habitual and pragmatic reasons.
Braithwaite saw logical form as common to all scientific theory in the form of an uninterpretable deductive system. With the help of this scheme, he examined the traditional problems of the philosophy of science : meaning of theoretical concepts, models, interpretation of probability, justification of induction, as well as scientific laws, models, causality and explanation.
In 1986 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
He was married to the linguist and philosopher Margaret Masterman .
Fonts
- The Foundations of Mathematics and other Logic Essays (1931): a collection of IT Ramey's works (Ed. Braithwaite)
- Moral Principles and Inductive Policies (1952)
- Scientific explanation. A Study in the Function of Theory, Probability, and Law in Science (1953)
- An Empiricist's View of the Nature of Religious Belief (1955)
- Theory of Games as a Tool for the Moral Philosopher (1955)
literature
- Mary Hesse: Richard Bevan Braithwaite, 1900–1990 . In: Proceedings of the British Academy . tape 82 , p. 367-379 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).
Individual evidence
- ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 8, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Braithwaite, Richard Bevan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British philosophy of science |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Banbury |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 21, 1990 |
| Place of death | Cambridge |