Howson, Colin


Professor Colin Howson  

Department

Position held

Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method

Emeritus Professor

Experience keywords:

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

Languages:

French [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]

Media experience:

RadioTV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 7332

Publications

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2013

Howson, Colin (2013) Exhuming the no-miracles argument. Analysis, 73 (2). pp. 205-211. ISSN 0003-2638

2012

Howson, Colin (2012) Modelling uncertain inference. Synthese, 186 (2). pp. 475-492. ISSN 0039-7857

2011

Howson, Colin (2011) No answer to Hume. International studies in the philosophy of science, 25 (3). pp. 279-284. ISSN 0269-8595

Howson, Colin (2011) Objecting to God. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780521186650

Howson, Colin (2011) Bayesianism as a pure logic of Inference. In: Bandyopadhyay, P and Foster, M, (eds.) Philosophy of statistics. North Holland, Oxford, UK, pp. 441-472. ISBN 9780444518620

2009

Howson, Colin (2009) Sorites is no threat to modus ponens: a reply to Kochan. International studies in the philosophy of science, 23 (2). pp. 209-212. ISSN 0269-8595

Howson, Colin (2009) Can logic be combined with probability? Probably. Journal of applied logic, 7 (2). pp. 177-187. ISSN 1570-8683

2008

Howson, Colin (2008) De finetti, countable additivity, consistency and coherence. The British journal for the philosophy of science, 59 (1). pp. 1-23. ISSN 1464-3537

2007

Howson, Colin (2007) An interview with Colin Howson. The reasoner, 6 (1). pp. 1-3. ISSN 1757-0522

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

Howson, Colin (2007) Reply to Hudson: "Howson on novel confirmation". Logic and philosophy of science, 5 (1). pp. 33-41. ISSN 1826 - 1043

2005

Howson, Colin and Urbach, Peter (2005) Scientific reasoning: the Bayesian approach. Open Court, Chicago, USA. ISBN 9780812692358

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) Bayesianism in statistics. In: Swinburne, Richard, (ed.) Bayes’s Theorem. Oxford University Press/British Academy, Oxford, UK, pp. 39-71. ISBN 9780197262672

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

0486

Howson, Colin (0486) Truth and the liar. In: DeVidi, David and Hallet, Michael and Clark, Peter, (eds.) Logic, mathematics, philosophy, vintage enthusiasms: essays in honour of John L. Bell. Springer. ISBN 9789400702134

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