Italian philosopher of science
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]
