Howson, Colin


Professor Colin Howson  

Department

Position held

Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method

Chair in Philosophy of Science

Experience keywords:

science; euthanasia; foundations; philosophy; logic; Bayesian methodology; probability

Languages:

French [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]

Media experience:

RadioTV

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LSE phone number:

020 7955 7332

Publications

The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.

2007

Howson, Colin (2007) Logic with numbers. Synthese, 156 (3). pp. 491-512. ISSN 0039-7857

2006

Howson, Colin and Urbach, Peter (2006) Scientific reasoning : the Bayesian approach. Open Court, Chicago. ISBN 081269578X

2005

Howson, Colin and Urbach, Peter (2005) Scientific reasoning: The Bayesian approach. Open Court, Chicago, USA. ISBN 081269578X

2003

Howson, Colin (2003) Probability and logic. Journal of applied logic, 1 (3-4). pp. 151-165. ISSN 1570-8683

Howson, Colin (2003) Bayesian evidence. In: Galavotti, Maria Carla, (ed.) Observation and experiment in the natural and social sciences. Kluwer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 301-320. ISBN 1402012519

2002

Howson, Colin (2002) The logic of Bayesian probability. In: Corfield, David and Williamson, Jon, (eds.) Foundations of Bayesianism. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 137-160. ISBN 9781402002236

2000

Howson, Colin (2000) Hume's problem: induction and the justification of belief. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780198250388

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