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James Joyce

Chair and Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Statistics


2223 Angell Hall
Department of Philosophy
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003

Phone:(734)-764-6285
Fax: (734)-763-8071
E-Mail: jjoyce@umich.edu

Research Interests

Philosophical aspects of probability theory and statistics, epistemology, the theory of rational choice, and the general philosophy of science.

Courses Taught

Statistics 553

Education

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Michigan, 1991
B.A. Philosophy and Mathematics, John Carroll University, 1980

Selected Publications

His book The Foundations of Causal Decision Theory was published by Cambridge University Press in 1999.

Recent articles include

"A Nonpragmatic Vindication of Probabilism," Philosophy of Science 65 (December 1998)

"Why We Still Need the Logic of Decision" Philosophy of Science 67 (June 2000)

"Levi on Causal Decision Theory and the Possibility of Predicting One's Own Actions", Philosophical Studies 110 (2002)

"Bayes' Theorem", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2003 Edition)

"Bayesianism", in A. Mele and P. Rawling, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Rationality, Oxford University Press, (2004)

"Williamson on Knowledge and Evidence", Philosophical Books 45 (2004)

"How Degrees of Belief Reflect Evidence", Philosophical Perspectives 19 (2005)

"Are Newcomb Problems Really Decisions?", forthcoming in Synthese (2005).

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