James M. Joyce

James M. Joyce is the C. H. Langford Collegiate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. ^[1] He specializes in the philosophy of probability.

Education and career

Joyce obtained bachelor's degrees in philosophy and in mathematics at John Carroll University in 1980. He taught as an adjunct faculty member at the University of the District of Columbia from 1987 through 1990. He earned his doctorate from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1991, joining the philosophy faculty there as an assistant professor. He was promoted to full professor in 2006 and awarded the title of C. H. Langford Collegiate Professor in 2012. ^[1]

He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2024. ^[2] The American Philosophical Association selected him to give the 2026 John Dewey Lecture for its central division. ^[3]

Selected publications

• Joyce, J. M. (1999). The Foundations of Causal Decision Theory. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511498497. ^{[4] [5] [6] [7]}
• Joyce, J. M. (September 30, 2003). "Bayes' Theorem". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy .
• Joyce, J. M. (2011). "Kullback–Leibler Divergence". International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science. Springer. pp. 720–722. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-04898-2_327. ISBN   978-3-642-04897-5.

References

1. "James Joyce". College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. University of Michigan. Retrieved 2025-08-18.
2. "James Michael Joyce". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. August 2025. Retrieved 2025-08-18.
3. "2025 APA Prizes: Spring Edition". American Philosophical Association. Retrieved 2025-08-18.
4. Eells, Ellery (December 2000). The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science . 51 (4): 893–900. JSTOR   3541733.
5. Fitelson, Branden (July 2003). Mind . New Series. 112 (447): 545–551. JSTOR   3489208.
6. Janusz, Mirek (April 2001). The Philosophical Review . 110 (2): 296–300. JSTOR   2693688.
7. Levi, Isaac (July 2000). The Journal of Philosophy . 97 (7): 387–402. JSTOR   2678411.

External links

• James M. Joyce publications indexed by Google Scholar