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Isaac Levi
Researcher at Columbia University
Publications - 121
Citations - 4718
Isaac Levi is an academic researcher from Columbia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Philosophy of science & Philosophy of language. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 121 publications receiving 4579 citations. Previous affiliations of Isaac Levi include Case Western Reserve University & University of Oxford.
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On Indeterminate Probabilities
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider how judgments of uncertainty discriminate between hypotheses with respect to grades of uncertainty, probability, belief, or credence, and show that such judgments are relevant to the conduct of deliberations aimed at making choices between rival policies not only in the context of games of chance, but in moral, political, economic, or scientific decision making.
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Hard Choices: Decision Making under Unresolved Conflict
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define moral struggle as a source of conflict in scientific inquiry and social choice theory as a way to reveal values revealed by choices, and social agency as a means of social choice.
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The Enterprise of Knowledge: An Essay on Knowledge, Credal Probability, and Chance
Mark Kaplan,Isaac Levi +1 more
TL;DR: The Enterprise of Knowledge as discussed by the authors is a major conceptual and speculative philosophic investigation of knowledge, belief, and decision, which offers a distinctive approach to the improvement of knowledge where knowledge is construed as a resource for deliberation and inquiry.
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Subjunctives, dispositions and chances
TL;DR: In this article, it is shown that X and Y differ in the way they evaluate h with respect to credal probability to be used in practical deliberation and scientific inquiry in computing expectations.