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    Hannes Leitgeb

    contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy (Formal Epistemology)

    b. 1972

    Hannes Leitgeb is an Austrian philosopher and logician, Chair of Logic and Philosophy of Language at LMU Munich and founding director of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. His work bridges formal epistemology, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophical logic, with influential contributions on belief, probability, and the relationship between qualitative and quantitative doxastic states.

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    Notable Achievements

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    Founded and directs the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP)

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    Developed the Humean thesis on belief, linking belief and subjective probability via stability

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    Authored 'The Stability of Belief: How Rational Belief Coheres with Probability' (2017)

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    Advanced structural foundations of mathematics and neo-logicism

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    Co-editor of The Review of Symbolic Logic

    Positions & Arguments

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    Skepticism

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    The principle of maximum entropy is a more cautious and broadly applicable version of the Principle of Indifference.

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    Plausibility updates in sequential games during actual play differ in interpretation from plausibility updates used in pregame deliberation for Backward Induction.

    Truth & Knowledge

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    The principle of maximum entropy is a more cautious and broadly applicable version of the Principle of Indifference.

    claim

    Plausibility updates in sequential games during actual play differ in interpretation from plausibility updates used in pregame deliberation for Backward Induction.

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