Philosopher

Colin Howson

Overview

Colin Howson (4 June 1945 – 5 January 2020) was a British philosopher. He was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, where he joined the faculty on 1 July 2008. Previously, he was Professor of Logic at the London School of Economics. He completed a PhD on the philosophy of probability in 1981. In the late 1960s he had been a research assistant of Imre Lakatos at LSE. He died on 5 January 2020.

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Philosophers who discussed Colin Howson

• Nick Bostrom
• Margaret Morrison (philosopher)

Ideas Colin Howson discusses

• Philosophy
• Probability
• Richard Swinburne
• British Academy
• Philosophy of science
• Imre Lakatos
• Logic
• Bayesian epistemology
• London School of Economics
• University of Toronto
• Margaret Morrison (philosopher)

Place in the tradition

Part of Propositional logic.

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