Maria Carla Galavotti

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

1. Birth year from German National Library catalog, retrieved 2024-02-29
2. Curriculum vitae, University of Bologna, retrieved 2024-02-29
3. "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,
6. 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,
   • Donald Gillies, Philosophia Mathematica, doi:10.1093/philmat/nkl022
   • Henry E. Kyburg Jr., Zbl   1072.03001
   • Laurent Mazliak, MR 2126866
   • 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
7. Reviews of Epistemologia ed economia:
   • Paolo Garbolini, Lingua e stile, hdl: 11578/42540
   • T. Raffaelli, Quaderni di storia dell'economia politica, JSTOR   43319704
8. 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, MR 1204886, Zbl   1092.01513
   • Enrico Moriconi, Modern Logic,
   • Nils-Eric Sahlin, Erkenntnis, JSTOR   20012498
   • Jan Wolenski and Gabriel Sandu, Synthese, JSTOR   20117949
9. Review of Probability, Dynamics and Causality: Paul Bartha, Philosophy in Review,
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:
    • Margherita Benzi, History and Philosophy of Logic, doi:10.1080/0144534031000088234
    • Lars-Göran Johansson, Theoria, doi:10.1111/j.1755-2567.2004.tb00981.x
12. Reviews of Cambridge and Vienna:
    • Mauro Murzi, Rivista di Recensioni Filosofiche,
    • Saurabh Sanatani, Indian Science Cruiser,
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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