Richard C. Jeffrey | |
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| Born | August 5, 1926 |
| Died | November 9, 2002 |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
Main interests | Decision theory, epistemology |
Notable ideas | Radical probabilism, Jeffrey conditioning, truth tree method for syllogism testing[1] |
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Richard Carl Jeffrey (August 5, 1926 – November 9, 2002) was an American philosopher, logician, and probability theorist. He is best known for developing and championing the philosophy of radical probabilism and the associated heuristic of probability kinematics, also known as Jeffrey conditioning.
- ^ Richard Jeffrey, John P. Burgess (editor), Formal Logic: Its Scope and Limits (4th ed.), Hackett Publishing, 2006, p. 21; cf. Wayne Grennan, Informal Logic: Issues and Techniques, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997, p. 108.
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