Colin Howson

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Professor Colin Howson is a British philosopher who is a Professor of Logic, at the London School of Economics. He will be joining the University of Toronto as a full professor on the St. George campus as of July 1, 2008. [1]


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[2]

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[edit] Publications

[edit] 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."[3]
  • 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

[edit] 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[4]

[edit] Notes & References

  1. ^ Department of Philosophy - University of Toronto
  2. ^ Basic bio-info from LSE website
  3. ^ review quoted in OUP website
  4. ^ scanned version - expanded version