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

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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

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Galavotti was elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2014.[3]

Books

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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

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  1. ^ Birth year from German National Library catalog, retrieved 2024-02-29
  2. ^ a b Curriculum vitae, University of Bologna, retrieved 2024-02-29
  3. ^ a b "Prof. Dr. Maria Carla Galavotti", List of members, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, retrieved 2024-02-29
  4. ^ "Maria Carla Galavotti", ORCiD, retrieved 2024-02-29
  5. ^ Review of Metodologia statistica per la ricerca geostorica: Pierre George, Annales de géographie, [1]
  6. ^ Reviews of Philosophical Introduction to Probability:
  7. ^ Reviews of Epistemologia ed economia:
  8. ^ Reviews of Frank Plumpton Ramsey's Notes on Philosophy, Probability and Mathematics:
  9. ^ Review of Probability, Dynamics and Causality: Paul Bartha, Philosophy in Review, [4]
  10. ^ 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
  11. ^ Reviews of Stochastic Causality:
  12. ^ Reviews of Cambridge and Vienna:
    • Mauro Murzi, Rivista di Recensioni Filosofiche, [5]
    • Saurabh Sanatani, Indian Science Cruiser, [6]
  13. ^ 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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