Works by and about Richard Jeffrey
Brief Autobiography
Teenage logical positivism led me to Chicago for an MA with Carnap and,
years later, to Princeton for a PhD with Hempel. My "radical probabilism'"
grew out of that; see Probability and the Art of Judgment (1992).
So did an earlier collaboration with Carnap; see Studies in Inductive
Logic and Probability (1971, 1980).
The Logic of Decision (1965, 1983, 1990) was the product of long
labor (1960–4) followed by merciful midwifery (1964) of Bolker and Gödel.
Formal Logic: Its Scope and Limits (1967, 1981, 1991) was inspired
when Raymond Smullyan cleared up Evert Beth's "tableau" method for me,
one day, on the street in New York.
The "logic" half of Computability and Logic (1974, 1980,
1989) came into being when George Boolos joined in. By the 3rd edition
that half had grown to two thirds.
When George died in 1996 I edited his Logic, Logic, and Logic
(1999) — with an extensive introduction by John Burgess. And when Hempel
died in 1997 I edited his Selected Philosophical Essays (2000). I
miss them sorely.
Richard Jeffrey and Carl "Peter" Hempel
Contents
Unpublished Work and Preprints
Articles
- (1956) "Valuation and Acceptance of Scientific Hypotheses", Philosophy of Science 23: 237–246.
- (1963) "On indeterminate conditionals", Philosophical Studies 14: 33–48.
- (1965) "New Foundations for Bayesian decision theory", in Y. Bar-Hillel (ed.), Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, North Holland, pp. 289–300.
- (1966) "Goodman's Query", Journal of Philosophy 63: 281–8.
- (1968) "The Whole Truth", Synthese 18: 24–27.
- (1968) "Probable Knowledge" in Lakatos., ed., The Problem of Inductive Logic, North Holland, pp. 166–180, 189–190.
- (1969) "Statistical Explanation vs. Statistical Inference" in N. Rescher (ed.), Essays in Honor of Carl G. Hempel, Reidel, pp. 104–113.
- (1970) "Dracula meets Wolf Man: Acceptance vs. partial belief", in Swain (ed.), Induction, Acceptance, and Partial Belief, Reidel, pp. 157–185.
- (1971) "Homage to Rudolf Carnap", Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol VIII (Buck & Cohen, eds.), Reidel, pp. xix–xxii.
- (1971) "Remarks on explanatory Power", Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol VIII (Buck & Cohen, eds.), Reidel, pp. 40–46.
- (1971) "On Interpersonal Utility Theory", Journal of Philosophy 68: 647–657.
- (1972) "Probability Measures & Integrals" in Studies in Inductive Logic and Probability, I., 167–223.
- (1974) "Preference Among Preferences", Journal of Philosophy 71: 377–391.
- (1974) "Frameworks for Preference", M. Balch, D. McFadden and S. Y. Wu, eds., Essays on Economic Behavior Under Uncertainty, North-Holland, pp. 74–79.
- (1974) "Remarks on interpersonal utility theory", S. Stenlund (ed.), Logical Theory and Semantic Analysis, Reidel, pp. 35–44, .
- (1975) "Probability and Falsification: Critique of the Popper Program", Synthese 30: 95–117 and 149–157.
- (1975) "Carnap's empiricism", in Maxwell and Anderson (eds.) Induction, Probability and Confirmation, Minnesota, pp. 37–49.
- (1977) "Carnap's inductive logic", Rudolf Carnap, Logical Empiricist, Reidel, pp. 325–332.
- (1977) "Mises Redux", in R. Butts and J. Hintikka (eds.), Basic Problems in Methodology and Linguistics, Reidel, pp. 213–222.
- (1977) "A Note on the Kinematics of Preference", Erkenntnis 11: 135–141.
- (1977) "Savage's Omelet", PSA 1976, 2: 361–367.
- (1978) "Axiomatizing the Logic of Decision", in C.A. Hooker, J.T. Leach, and E.F. McClellen (eds.), Foundations and Applicatins of Decision Theory, Vol. l, Reidel, pp. 227–231.
- (1979) "Coming True", in Cora Diamond and Jenny Teichman (eds.), Intention and Intentionality, Harvester, pp. 251–260.
- (1980) "How is it reasonable to base preferences on estimates of chance?" in D.H. Mellor (ed.), Science, Belief, and Behaviour, Cambridge, pp. 179–187.
- (1981) "Choice, chance, and credence", in G.H. von Wright and G. Fløistad (eds.), Contemporary Philosophy, A New Survey: Philosophy of Logic, Martinus Nijhoff, pp. 367–386.
- (1981) "The Logic of Decision Defended", Synthese 48: 473–492.
- (1983) "Bayesianism with a Human Face", in John Earman (ed.), Testing Scientific Theories (Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 10).
- (1983) "The Sure Thing Principle", PSA 1982 2:719–730.
- (1984) "De Finetti's Probabilism", Synthese 60: 73–90.
- (1984) "The impossibility of inductive probability" (reply to Popper and Miller), Nature 310: 433.
- (1984) "An assessment of the subjectivistic approach to probability", Epistemologia 7: 9–32 (special issue on Probability, Statistics and Inductive Logic).
- (1985) "Probability and the art of judgment", in Peter Achinstein and Mark Hannaway (eds.), Observation and Experiment in Modern Science, MIT-Bradford, pp. 133–156.
- (1985) "Animal interpretation", in Ernest Lepore and Brian McLaughlin (eds.), Action and Events, Basil Blackwell, pp. 481–487.
- (1986) "Judgmental probability and objective chance", Erkenntnis 24: 5–16.
- (1986) "Probabilism and induction", Topoi 5: 51–58.
- (1987) "Alias Smith and Jones: the Testimony of the senses", Erkenntnis 26: 391–399.
- (1987) "Risk and Human Rationality", Monist 70: 223–36.
- (1987) "Indefinite Probability Judgment", Philosophy of Science 54: 586–591.
- (1988) "Conditioning, kinematics and exchangeability", Brian Skyrms and William Harper (eds.), Causation, Chance and Credence, vol. I, Reidel, pp. 221–255.
- (1988) "How to probabilize a Newcomb problem" in James H. Fetzer (ed.), Probability and Causality, Reidel, pp. 241–251.
- (1988) "Roulette Russa: un problema per i Bayesiani", in M.C. Galavotti and G. Gambetta (ed.), Epistemologia ed Economia, Bologna: CLUEB, pp. 15–20.
- (1988) "Biting the Bayesian bullet: Zeckhauser's problem", Theory and Decision 25: 117–122.
- (1989) "Reading Probabilismo": Erkenntnis 30: 225–237.
- (1989) "Probabilizing pathology" (with Michael Hendrickson), Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 89:211–225.
- (1991) "Frank Ramsey", TLS, 17 May 1991.
- (1991) "After Carnap", Erkenntnis. Translated: "Dopo Carnap" in L'eredità di Rudolf Carnap, Alberto Pasquinelli (ed.), Bologna (1995).
- (1992) "Radical probabilism (prospectus for a user's manual)", Philosophical Issues 2:193-204.
- (1993) "Take back the day! Jon Dorling's Bayesian solution to the Duhem problem", in Enrique Villanueva (ed.), Science and Knowledge, Ridgeview, pp. 197–207.
- (1993) "From logical empiricism to radical probabilism", in F. Stadtler (ed.), Scientific Philosophy: Origins and Developments, Kluwer, pp. 121–130; corrected in Probability and the Art of Judgment, ch. 1.
- (1993) "Probability kinematics and causality", PSA 1992 2:365–373.
- (1993) "Causality in the logic of decision", Philosophical Topics 21: 139–151.
- (1994) "Conditionals as random variables" (with Robert Stalnaker) in Ellery Eells and Brian Skyrms (eds.), Probability and Conditionals, Cambridge, pp. 31–46.
- (1994) "Carnap's voluntarism" in D. Prawiz, B. Skyrms and D. Westerståhl (eds.), Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science IX, Elsevier, pp. 847–866.
- (1995) "Probability reparation: the problem of new explanation", Philosophical Studies 77: 97–101.
- (1995) "A Brief Guide to the Work of Carl Gustav Hempel", Erkenntnis 42: 3–7.
- (1995) "Bayes's Theorem", "Computability", Decision Theory", and "Ramsey", Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Cambridge.
- (1996) "Logicism 2000", in Stephen Stich and Adam Morton (eds.), Benacerraf and his Critics, Blackwell, pp. 160–164.
- (1996) "Decision kinematics", in Kenneth J. Arrow et al. (eds.), Rational Foundations of Economic Behaviour, St. Martin's, pp. 3–19.
- (1996) "Unknown Probabilities", Erkenntnis 41: 1–9.
- (1997) "Probabilistic Epistemology", in G. Costa, G. Calucci and M. Giorgi (eds.), Conceptual Tools for Understanding Nature, World Scientific, pp. 127–134.
- (1998) "Preference Aggregation after Harsanyi" (with Matthias Hild and Mathias Risse), in Maurice Salles and John A. Weymark (eds.), Justice, Political Liberalism, and Utilitarianism, Cambridge.
- (1999) "Aumann's 'No Agreement' Theorem Generalized" (with Matthias Hild and Mathias Risse), in The Logic of Strategy.
- (2002) "Logicism Lite", Philosophy of Science 69 (3):474-496.
- (2002) Petrus Hispanus Lectures: I. "After Logical Empiricism" II. "Radical Probabilism", Actas da Sociedade Portuguesa da Filosofia.
- (2002) "Epistemology Probabilized", in B. Bouchon-Meunier, J. Guitterez-Rios, L. Magdalena and R.R. Yaeger (eds.), Technologies for Constructing Intelligent Systems, Springer.
Books (author)
- (1965) The Logic of Decision, McGraw Hill
- (1967) Formal Logic: Its Scope and Limits, McGraw Hill
- (1974) Computability and Logic (with G. Boolos), Cambridge University Press
- (1980) Computability and Logic (2nd ed., with G. Boolos), Cambridge University Press
- (1981) Formal Logic: Its Scope and Limits (2nd ed.), McGraw Hill
- (1983) The Logic of Decision (2nd ed.), University of Chicago Press
- (1989) Computability and Logic (3rd ed., with G. Boolos)
- (1990) The Logic of Decision (paperback correction of 2nd ed.), Chicago University Press
- (1990) Formal Logic: Its Scope and Limits (3rd ed.), McGraw Hill
- (1992) Probability and the Art of Judgment (selected essays), Cambridge University Press
- (2004) Subjective Probability: The Real Thing, Cambridge University Press
Books (editor)
- (1971) Studies in Inductive Logic and Probability, I. (Jeffrey, Carnap, eds.), University of California Press
- (1980) Studies in Inductive Logic and Probability, II. (Jeffrey, ed.), University of California Press
- (1989) Bruno de Finetti's Philosophy of Probability (Jeffrey and M.C. Galavotti, eds.), double issue of Erkenntnis 31: 165–416
- (1997) The Dynamics of Norms (Jeffrey, Cristina Bicchieri, and Brian Skyrms, eds.), Cambridge University Press
- (1998) Logic, Logic, and Logic, by George Boolos (Jeffrey, ed.), Harvard University Press
- (1999) The Logic of Strategy (Jeffrey, Cristina Bicchieri, and Brian Skyrms, eds.), Oxford University Press
- (2000) Selected Philosophical Essays, by C. G. Hempel (Jeffrey, ed.), Cambridge University Press
Selected Reviews
- (1964) Review of Putnam, "What theories could not be", Journal of Philosophy 59: 79–88.
- (1964) Review of Nagel, Suppes, and Tarski (eds.), Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Journal of Philosophy 61: 79–88.
- (1968) Review of Levi, Gambling With Truth: An Essay on Induction and the Aims of Science, Journal of Philosophy 65: 313–322.
Translations
- (1989) "Probabilism", a translation (with M.C. DiMaio and M.C. Galavotti) of Bruno de Finetti's Probabilismo, in Bruno de Finetti's Philosophy of Probability, 169–223.
- (1995) Translation of A. N. Kolmogorov's "Complete metric boolean algebras", Philosophical Studies 77: 57–66.
In Memory
Papers presented at the "Remembering Jeffrey" session of the 2003 Wittgenstein conference:
- Patrick Suppes: "Introduction"
- Richard Bradley: "Radical Probabilism and Mental Kinematics"
- Jim Joyce: Jeffrey on Newcomb Problems and Causal Reasoning"
- Mathias Risse: "The General Will, Group Decision Theory, and Indeterminacy"
Three articles in
Philosophy of Science, 73.5, December 2006, from the 2004 Philosophy of Science Meetings in Austin: