Maria Carla Galavotti Explained

Maria Carla Galavotti (born 1947) 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:

Her edited books include:

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