Italian philosopher of science
Maria Carla Galavotti (born 1947)[1] is a retired Italian philosopher of science, an emeritus professor at the University of Bologna.[2] She specializes in the philosophy of probability and causality. Particular concerns of her work have included subjectivist Bayesianism, according to which probability describes a personal belief, the origins of subjectivism in the works of Frank Ramsey and Bruno de Finetti, and the use of probability to describe causal relationships.[3]
Education and career
Galavotti began working at the University of Bologna as a researcher in philosophy in 1975. She became an associate professor there from 1982 until 1994, when she moved to a full professorship at the University of Trieste. She returned to the University of Bologna as a full professor in 1998,[2] and retired to become a professor emeritus in 2019.[4]
Recognition
Galavotti was elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2014.[3]
Books
Galavotti is the author of books including:
- Metodologia statistica per la ricerca geostorica (La Nuova Italia Editrice, 1979)[5]
- Probabilità (La Nuova Italia Scientifica, 2000)
- Philosophical Introduction to Probability (CSLI Publications, 2005)[6]
- La spiegazione scientifica (with Raffaela Campaner, Archetipolibri, 2012)
- Filosofia della scienza (with Raffaela Campaner, Egea, 2017)
Her edited books include:
- Epistemologia ed economia (with Guido Gambetta, Clueb, 1988)[7]
- Frank Plumpton Ramsey's Notes on Philosophy, Probability and Mathematics (Bibliopolis, 1991)[8]
- Probability, Dynamics and Causality: Essays in Honour of Richard C. Jeffrey (with Domenico Costantini, Academic Publishers, 1997)[9]
- Experience, Reality, and Scientific Explanation: Essays in Honour of Merrilee and Wesley Salmon (with Alessandro Pagnini, Kluwer, 1999)[10]
- Stochastic Causality (with Patrick Suppes and Domenico Costantini, University of Chicago Press, 2001)[11]
- Cambridge and Vienna: Frank P. Ramsey and the Vienna Circle. (Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook v.12., Springer, 2006)[12]
- European Philosophy of Science: Philosophy of Science in Europe and the Viennese Heritage (with Elisabeth Nemeth and Friedrich Stadler, Springer, 2014)[13]
References
- ^ Birth year from German National Library catalog, retrieved 2024-02-29
- ^ a b Curriculum vitae, University of Bologna, retrieved 2024-02-29
- ^ a b "Prof. Dr. Maria Carla Galavotti", List of members, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, retrieved 2024-02-29
- ^ "Maria Carla Galavotti", ORCiD, retrieved 2024-02-29
- ^ Review of Metodologia statistica per la ricerca geostorica:
Pierre George, Annales de géographie, [1]
- ^ Reviews of Philosophical Introduction to Probability:
- Margherita Benzi, Erkenntnis, doi:10.1007/s10670-007-9083-9, JSTOR 40267482
- Franca D’Agostini, Rivista di Recensioni Filosofiche, [2]
- Donald Gillies, Philosophia Mathematica, doi:10.1093/philmat/nkl022
- Henry E. Kyburg Jr., Zbl 1072.03001
- Laurent Mazliak, MR2126866
- Jan-Willem Romeijn, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, doi:10.1016/j.shpsb.2007.08.003
- ^ Reviews of Epistemologia ed economia:
- Paolo Garbolini, Lingua e stile, hdl:11578/42540
- T. Raffaelli, Quaderni di storia dell'economia politica, JSTOR 43319704
- ^ Reviews of Frank Plumpton Ramsey's Notes on Philosophy, Probability and Mathematics:
- Brad Armendt, The Philosophical Review, doi:10.2307/2186106, JSTOR 2186106
- Maria Concetta Di Maio, Philosophy of Science, doi:10.1086/289816, JSTOR 188058
- E. J. Lowe, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, doi:10.1093/bjps/48.2.300, JSTOR 687755
- Mathieu Marion, The Journal of Symbolic Logic, doi:10.2307/2586732, JSTOR 2586732
- E. Mendelson, MR1204886, Zbl 1092.01513
- Enrico Moriconi, Modern Logic, [3]
- Nils-Eric Sahlin, Erkenntnis, JSTOR 20012498
- Jan Wolenski and Gabriel Sandu, Synthese, JSTOR 20117949
- ^ Review of Probability, Dynamics and Causality:
Paul Bartha, Philosophy in Review, [4]
- ^ Review of Experience, Reality, and Scientific Explanation:
Raffaella Campaner, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, doi:10.1093/bjps/51.4.941, JSTOR 3541741
- ^ Reviews of Stochastic Causality:
- Margherita Benzi, History and Philosophy of Logic, doi:10.1080/0144534031000088234
- Lars-Göran Johansson, Theoria, doi:10.1111/j.1755-2567.2004.tb00981.x
- ^ Reviews of Cambridge and Vienna:
- Mauro Murzi, Rivista di Recensioni Filosofiche, [5]
- Saurabh Sanatani, Indian Science Cruiser, [6]
- ^ Review of European Philosophy of Science:
Adam Tamas Tuboly, "From Vienna to Vienna", Science & Education, doi:10.1007/s11191-016-9850-6
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