Epistemology and Inference

Epistemology and Inference was first published in 1983. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

Henry Kyburg has developed an original and important perspective on probabilistic and statistical inference. Unlike much contemporary writing by philosophers on these topics, Kyburg's work is informed by issues that have arisen in statistical theory and practice as well as issues familiar to professional philosophers. In two major books and many articles, Kyberg has elaborated his technical proposals and explained their ramifications for epistemology, decision-making, and scientific inquiry. In this collection of published and unpublished essays, Kyburg presents his novel ideas and their applications in a manner that makes them accessible to philosophers and provides specialists in probability and induction with a concise exposition of his system.

Henry E. Kyburg, Jr. earned his bachelors degree in chemical engineering at Yale University and his Ph.D. in philosophy at Columbia. He taught mathematics and philosophy at Wesleyan, Rockefeller, and Wayne State universities and at the University of Denver.He was Burbank Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at the University of Rochester. His major works include Probability Theory, Probability and the Logic of Rational Belief, and The Logical Foundations of Statistical Inference. Kyburg was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a recipient of the Nicholas Murray Medal from Columbia University.