Formal Epistemology - List of Contemporary Formal Epistemologists

List of Contemporary Formal Epistemologists

  • Horacio Arló-Costa, Carnegie Mellon, Philosophy (Bayesian epistemology, epistemic logic, belief revision, conditionals, rational choice, normative and behavioral decision theory)
  • Luc Bovens (Bayesian epistemology, probability, etc.)
  • Samir Chopra (belief revision, physics, etc.)
  • Jake Chandler (Bayesian epistemology, belief revision, etc.)
  • John Collins Columbia, Philosophy (belief revision, causal decision theory)
  • Franz Dietrich (collective decision-making, etc.)
  • Trent Dougherty (Jeffrey's radical probabilism, semantics for modals, theories of probability)
  • Igor Douven (Bayesian epistemology, etc.)
  • Ellery Eells (confirmation, probability)
  • Adam Elga (probabilistic reasoning, laws, etc.)
  • Branden Fitelson (confirmation, logic, etc.)
  • Malcolm Forster (confirmation, simplicity, causation)
  • Haim Gaifman Columbia, Philosophy (foundations of probability, mathematical logic)
  • Anthony Gillies (belief revision, formal semantics)
  • Mario Gómez-Torrente
  • Alan Hájek (foundations of probability, decision theory, etc.)
  • Joseph Halpern (reasoning about knowledge and uncertainty)
  • Sven Ove Hansson (risk, decision theory, belief revision, deontic logic)
  • Gilbert Harman (epistemology, statistical learning theory, mind and language)
  • Stephan Hartmann (Bayesian epistemology, probability, collective decision-making, etc.)
  • James Hawthorne (confirmation theory, inductive logic, belief revision, nonmonotonic logic)
  • Jeff Helzner Columbia, Philosophy (decision theory, rational choice)
  • Vincent F. Hendricks Copenhagen and Columbia, Philosophy (epistemic logic, formal learning theory, information processing and analysis of democracy)
  • Franz Huber (formal epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophical logic)
  • Richard Jeffrey (probabilistic reasoning)
  • James Joyce (decision theory)
  • Kevin T. Kelly, Carnegie Mellon, Philosophy (computational epistemology, belief revision, etc.)
  • Matthew Kotzen (formal epistemology, philosophy of science)
  • Marion Ledwig (Newcomb's problem)
  • Hannes Leitgeb (belief revision, probability, Bayesianism, etc.)
  • Isaac Levi Columbia, Philosophy (belief revision, decision theory, probability)
  • Patrick Maher (confirmation, inductive logic)
  • David Miller (probability, induction, logic, Popper)
  • Luca Moretti (confirmation, coherence, transmission of warrant, epistemic truth)
  • Daniel Osherson (inductive logic, reasoning, vagueness)
  • Rohit Parikh CUNY, Computer Science (epistemic logic, common knowledge)
  • Gabriella Pigozzi (belief revision, decision theory)
  • John Pollock (decision theory, reasoning, AI)
  • Darrell Rowbottom (foundations of probability, confirmation, philosophy of science, etc.)
  • Nick Rugai (computational epistemology)
  • Teddy Seidenfeld Carnegie Mellon, Philosophy (statistical decision theory, probability theory, game theory)
  • Wolfgang Spohn (reasoning, probability, causation, philosophy of science, etc.)
  • Paul Thorn (direct inference, defeasible reasoning, induction, etc.)
  • Bas Van Fraassen (imprecise credence, probability kinematics)
  • Peter Vranas (confirmation, deontic logic, time travel, ethics, etc.)
  • Gregory Wheeler (probability, logic)
  • Roger White (confirmation, cosmology)
  • Jon Williamson (Bayesianism, probability, causation)
  • Timothy Williamson (knowledge, modality, logic, vagueness, etc.)
  • David Wolpert (No Free Lunch theorems, i.e., Hume done rigorously; physics and inference, i.e., monotheism theorems, Chomsky hierarchy of inference devices, etc.)

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