On 11 March 2022, this one-day event will celebrate the life and work of Colin Howson.

Colin Howson (1945–2019) taught at LSE from 1967 to 2008. He made important contributions to the Bayesian approach to scientific reasoning and to  conceptual issues in probability and logic. This memorial meeting celebrates his achievements via a series of talks that either engage directly with particular aspects of his work or with the underlying themes.

Programme

Friday, 11 March 2022

Times are in British (GMT) time.
9:45–10:00 “Colin Howson (1945-2019)”:  Peter Urbach
10:00–11:00 Peter Urbach (Emeritus, LSE) “A Statistical P-Souper”
11:00–11:30 Coffee break
11:30–12:30 Stephan Hartmann (LMU) “Howson on the Old Evidence Problem”
12:30–14:00 Lunch break (attendees own arrangements)
14:00–15:00 Jan-Willem Romeijn (Groningen): “Howson on Induction”
15:00–15:45 Richard Bradley (LSE): “The Bayesian Reconstruction of Von Mises’ Frequentism”
15:45–16:15 Tea break
16:15–17:15 Chloé de Canson (Groningen): “On the Logic and the Epistemology of Induction”
17:15–18:00 John Worrall (Emeritus, LSE): “Some old objections to Howson and Urbach’s defence of Bayesianism revisited”

In-person attendance

This event will take place in person in LSE’s Shaw Library. It is free and open to all but pre-registration is required. Please follow the link below to register.

For those planning to attend in person please note that LSE COVID measures still require that all visitors to campus have evidence of a negative COVID test taken within the previous 4 days

Further information about our current COVID measures and how to record your negative result is available on the LSE website.

 

Register

 

Online attendance

If you are unable to attend in person then you can still take part in this event online via Zoom. Pre-registration is not required for online attendance.

To take part online just follow these instructions:

Please note that our events are routinely recorded, with the edited footage being made publicly available on our website and YouTube channel. We will only record the audio, the slides and the speaker and will not include the Q&A section. However, any question asked during the talk itself will feature in the final edit.

 

Organising Committee

Jason Alexander, Richard Bradley, Roman Frigg, Miklos Redei, John Worrall

 

Acknowledgments

The Organising Committee gratefully acknowledges financial support from The British Society for the Philosophy of Science and the Department of Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method, LSE

 

Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
CPNSS
British Society for the Philosophy of Science

 

Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method CPNSS British Society for the Philosophy of Science