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    Leah Henderson — Carmelics
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    Leah Henderson

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    Leah Henderson is a contemporary philosopher of science specializing in formal epistemology, Bayesian confirmation theory, and the philosophy of probability. She is an associate professor at the University of Groningen, where her work addresses inductive inference, scientific realism, and foundational issues in probability theory.

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    Contributions to Bayesian confirmation theory and inductive inference

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    Work on the problem of the priors and objective Bayesianism

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    Research on inference to the best explanation and its relation to Bayesianism

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    Analysis of countable additivity and foundations of probability

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    Scholarship on scientific realism and the no-miracles argument

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

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