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Colin Howson

16 works· latest 2017· 2 institutionscluster: provisional

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The Logic of Scientific Discovery2000 · 277 citations
Hume's Problem2000 · 235 citations
Hume's problem: induction and the justification of belief2000 · 204 citations
Why do scientists prefer to vary their experiments?1984 · 99 citations
A Logic of Induction1997 · 85 citations

Works

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Putting on the Garber Style? Better Not

Philosophy of Science·2017·1 author·Open access

27citations

De Finetti, Countable Additivity, Consistency and Coherence

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science·2008·1 author

30citations

The Logic of Scientific Discovery

·2000·1 author·chapter

277citations

Hume's Problem

·2000·1 author·book

235citations

Hume's problem: induction and the justification of belief

London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science)·2000·1 author·book

204citations

A Logic of Induction

Philosophy of Science·1997·1 author

85citations

The ‘Old Evidence’ Problem

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science·1991·1 author

73citations

Maher, Mendeleev and Bayesianism

Philosophy of Science·1991·2 authors

54citations

It probably is a valid experimental result: A Bayesian approach to the epistemology of experiment

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A·1988·2 authors

18citations

On a recent argument for the impossibility of a statistical explanation of single events, and a defence of a modified form of Hempel's theory of statistical explanation

Erkenntnis·1988·1 author

17citations

Accommodation, Prediction and Bayesian Confirmation Theory

PSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association·1988·1 author

26citations

SOME RECENT OBJECTIONS TO THE BAYESIAN THEORY OF SUPPORT

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science·1985·1 author

42citations

BAYESIANISM AND SUPPORT BY NOVEL FACTS

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science·1984·1 author

51citations

Why do scientists prefer to vary their experiments?

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A·1984·2 authors

99citations

Statistical explanation and statistical support

Erkenntnis·1983·1 author

28citations

Method and Appraisal in the Physical Sciences: The Critical Background to Modern Science, 1800-1905

The Journal of Interdisciplinary History·1977·2 authors

18citations