II: Foundations and Philosophy of Statistical Inference. I: Foundations and Philosophy of Epistemic Applications of Probability theory Pearce), Reidel, 1980.įoundations of Probability Theory, Statistical Inference, and Statistical Theories of Science, (with C. Meerbote), University of Minnesota Press, 1984. Kant on Causality, Freedom, and Objectivity, (with R. Skyrms), Kluwer, 1988.Ĭausation in Decision, Belief Change, and Statistics, (with B. Probability and Inference: Essays in Honour of Henry Kyburg, Jr., (with Gregory Wheeler),KingsCollege Publications: London, 2007Ĭausation, Chance and Credence, (with B. Isaac Newton’s Scientific Method: Turning Data into Evidence about Gravity and Cosmology. He hopes that his new book offers illumination that does some justice to Newton’s scientific method. He was so impressed with the power and illumination of Newton’s argument that he embarked upon the investigation that has become this long project. In preparation he began reading Newton’s argument in detail for the first time. Security through strength: Newton’s argument for universal gravity He decided to work out and present appropriate details at the Wayne State conference, giving as his title something like, On several of these occasions Harper had remarked from the audience that Newton’s unification of results of Galileo and Kepler appeared to afford a counterexample to the trade off between strength and security that van Fraassen was appealing to. van Fraassen claimed that he was simply being more cautious than his realist critics like Glymour.
Harper had witnessed Bas van Fraassen defending his empiricism from Glymour by appealing to a trade off between strength and security that seemed unavoidable if security were measured by probability. The other speakers were Clark Glymour and Dan Garber. In early 1982, Harper was invited to participate in a conference on confirmation at Wayne State University. His recent book, on Isaac Newton’s Scientific Method: Turning Data into Evidence about Gravity and Cosmology is the outcome of a long research project. It also included work on Kant and the role of geometry in affording perceptual knowledge of shaped objects located relative to the observer in public three-dimensional space. His early work included papers developing relations among decision theory and conditionals with applications to game theory and to representations of rational conceptual change. William Harper’s book, Issac Newton’s Scientific Method: Turning Data into Evidence about Gravity and Cosmology, won the 2014 Patrick Suppes prize for the philosophy of science awarded by the American Philosophical Society.Īs a graduate student, Harper’s fields of study were Logic and Semantics with Rolf Eberle and Henry Kyburg, Foundations of Probability and Philosophy of Science with Henry Kyburg, Epistemology with Keith Lehrer and Henry Kyburg and the Philosophy of Kant with Lewis Beck. In 1995 he had the honor of having an asteroid (15849 Billharper) named after him. He has also served twice on the Governing Board of the Philosophy of Science Association, and was representative of the Association of Symbolic Logic to the American Association for the Advancement of Science from 1982 to 1988. From 2002 – 2005 he served as President of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, having served as First Vice President from 1999 to 2001. He has held positions as a visiting Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, Princeton University, and the California Institute of Technology.
In 2011 he became a senior fellow at the Rotman Institute for Philosophy. In 2010 he retired with the status Professor Emeritus.
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He was tenured and promoted to associate professor in 1975 and promoted to full professor in 1980. In 1970 he began teaching as an assistant professor at Western. He completed his dissertation, Counterfactuals and Representations of Rational Belief, in 1974 under Henry Kyburg at the University of Rochester. In his sophomore year at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, he took a philosophy course that so inspired him that he became a philosophy major and decided on a career as a philosopher. William Harper was born in Potsdam New York on 6 January 1943.
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