Richard Jeffrey
Richard Jeffrey · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Philosopher of probability and decision theory
1926, Boston, Massachusetts, USA — 2002, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
United States
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Richard Jeffrey was an American philosopher and logician who developed radical probabilism and 'Jeffrey conditioning' (probability kinematics), a generalization of Bayesian updating for uncertain evidence, alongside foundational work in decision theory. A student of Carnap and Hempel, he taught at MIT, Stanford, Penn and Princeton. Standard biographies do not document a Jewish background, so a Jewish identity is not established for him.
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Philosopher of probability and decision theory
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