v about the contributors to this VolumeWenceslao J. gonzalez is Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the university of A Coruña. he has been Vice-dean of the School of humanities and President of the Committee of doctoral Programs at the university. he has been a visiting researcher at the universities of St. Andrews, Münster and London (London School of Economics), as well as Visiting fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science, university of Pittsburgh. he has given lectures at the universities of Pittsburgh, Stanford, Quebec and helsinki. The conferences in which he has participated include those organized by the universities of uppsala (Sweden), New South Wales (Australia), Bologna (Italy) and Canterbury (New Zealand).After the monograph La Teoría de la Referencia (1986), Gonzalez has edited 21 volumes. he is the editor of the book Science, Technology and Society: A Philosophical Perspective (2005), and the monographic issues of journals on Philosophy and Methodology of Economics (1998) and Lakatos's Philosophy Today (2001). he has published 75 papers which include "Economic Prediction and human Activity" (1994), "on the Theoretical Basis of Prediction in Economics" (1996), "rationality in Economics and Scientific Predictions" (1997), "Lakatos's Approach on Prediction and Novel Facts" (2001), "rationality in Experimental Economics" (2003), "From Erklären-Verstehen to Prediction-Understanding: The Methodological Framework in Economics" (2003), "The Many Faces of Popper's Methodological Approach to Prediction" (2004), and "The Philosophical Approach to Science, Technology and Society" (2005).Colin howson is Professor at the London School of Economics, where he is the Convenor of the department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method. he has been President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science. he is co-author of the influential book Scientific Reasoning: The Bayesian Approach (1989; 3rd ed., 2006) and author of the monograph Hume's Problem (2000). Previously he was editor of the volume Method and Appraisal in the Physical Sciences (1976).howson has published many papers on Bayesianism as well as criticizing Popper's views on probability: "Must the Logical Probability of Laws Be Zero?" (1973); "The rule of Succession, Inductive Logic and Probability Logic" (1975); "The Prehistory of Chance" (1978); "Miller's So-Called Paradox of Information" (1979); "Methodology in Non-Empirical disciplines" (1979); "Bayesianism and Support by Novel Facts" (1984); "Popper's Solution of the Problem of Induction" (1984); "Popper, Prior Probabilities and Inductive Inference" (1987); "Accommodation, Prediction and Bayesian Confirmation Theory" (1989); "Fitting your theory to the facts: Probably not such a bad thing after all" (1990); "The 'old Evidence ' Problem" (1991); "Bayesian Conditionalization and Probability kinematics" (1994); "Theories of Probability" (1995); "Probability and Logic" (2001); "Bayesianism in Statistics" and "Bayesian Evidence" (2003). donald a. gillies is Professor at univers...
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