Professor Dr Wolfgang Spohn
- Section Philosophy of Science
- Location Konstanz, Germany
- Election year 2002
Research
Wolfgang Spohn is a forerunner of the theory of rationalizability that is now standard in game theory and of the theory of Bayesian nets that has a very large influence on AI and on statistics. He is most well known as the founder of ranking theory at which he has worked since 1983. This is a dynamic theory of belief and disbelief, or a qualitative version of probability theory, sometimes called Baconian probability, that has wide and deep applications in epistemology and metaphysics, philosophy of science, AI, and elsewhere.
Besides, he has widely published on epistemology and philosophy of science, philosophy of mind and language, ontology and metaphysics, philosophy of mathematics and logic, decision and game theory, and the theory of practical rationality in general.
Besides, he has widely published on epistemology and philosophy of science, philosophy of mind and language, ontology and metaphysics, philosophy of mathematics and logic, decision and game theory, and the theory of practical rationality in general.