Maria Carla Galavotti
Maria Carla Galavotti is a retired Italian philosopher of science, an emeritus professor at the University of Bologna. 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.
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, and retired to become a professor emeritus in 2019.Recognition
Galavotti was elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2014.Books
Galavotti is the author of books including:- Metodologia statistica per la ricerca geostorica
- Probabilità
- Philosophical Introduction to Probability
- La spiegazione scientifica
- Filosofia della scienza
- Epistemologia ed economia
- Frank Plumpton Ramsey's Notes on Philosophy, Probability and Mathematics
- Probability, Dynamics and Causality: Essays in Honour of Richard C. Jeffrey
- Experience, Reality, and Scientific Explanation: Essays in Honour of Merrilee and Wesley Salmon
- Stochastic Causality
- Cambridge and Vienna: Frank P. Ramsey and the Vienna Circle.
- ''European Philosophy of Science: Philosophy of Science in Europe and the Viennese Heritage''