Hoefer Wins 2024 Lakatos Award

Carl Hoefer, Research Professor at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies and Scientific Director of the Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy (BIAP) is the winner of the 2024 Lakatos Award. The Lakatos Award is given for “an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science, widely interpreted, in the form of a book published in English during the current year or the previous five years”. Professor Hoefer won the award for his book, Chance in the World: A Humean Guide to Objective Chance (Oxford University Press, 2019). The award announcement says: Chance in the World: A Humean Guide to Objective Chance is praised by the selectors of the Lakatos Award as “a terrific book, thorough, detailed, and persuasive”, and as work of which “it’s not hard to see that it will become the sort of book that no one working on the interpretation of probability will be able to ignore”. The book is “has succeeded in producing the definitive version of the Lewisian theory of chance”, and it has done so in a way that “leads to a number of interesting and original claims about the relation of macroscopic chances and causes to the micro-world”.  The award which includes a £10,000 prize, is named in memory of Imre Lakatos, endowed by the Latsis Foundation, and awarded by a committee organized by the London School of Economics and Political Science.  
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