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    James Joyce — Carmelics
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    James Joyce

    contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy

    b. 1959

    James Joyce is a contemporary American philosopher specializing in formal epistemology, decision theory, and the philosophy of probability. He is best known for his defense of probabilism and his influential work on accuracy-based arguments for Bayesian norms of credence.

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    Developed accuracy-based (non-pragmatic) vindications of probabilism

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    Authored 'The Foundations of Causal Decision Theory' (1999)

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    Advanced defenses of Countable Additivity and Bayesian epistemology

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    Contributed to the theory of imprecise probabilities and credence

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    The Infinite Lottery Case is not a genuine counterexample to Countable Additivity

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