Richard Jeffrey
Richard C. Jeffrey | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 5, 1926 |
| Died | November 9, 2002 |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
| Main interests | Decision theory, epistemology |
| Notable ideas | Radical probabilism, Jeffrey conditioning, truth tree method for syllogism testing |
Richard Carl Jeffrey (August 5, 1926 – November 9, 2002) was an American philosopher, logician, and probability theorist. He is best known for developing and championing the philosophy of radical probabilism and the associated heuristic of probability kinematics, also known as Jeffrey conditioning.