Isaac Levi

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region = Western Philosophy
era = 20th century philosophy
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name = Isaac Levi
birth = 1930
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school_tradition = Pragmatism
main_interests = Pragmatism, Epistemology, Decision theory, Philosophy of Science
influences = C.S. Peirce
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notable_ideas = Unity of reason thesis, the commitment-performance distinction

Isaac Levi is the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Columbia University. Levi came onto the philosophic scene with his groundbreaking first book, "Gambling with Truth". In the text Levi offers a decision theoretic reconstruction of epistemology with a close-eye towards the classical pragmatist philosophers like William James and C.S. Peirce.

Major publications

* "Gambling with Truth Knopf" (1967), reissued in paper in 1973 by MIT Press.
* "The Enterprise of Knowledge: An Essay on Knowledge, Credal Probability and Chance", MIT (1980). Paperback (1983).
* "Decisions and Revisions", Cambridge University Press (1984).
* "Hard Choices: Decision Making under Unresolved Conflict", Cambridge University Press (1986). Paperback (1990).
* "The Fixation of Belief and Its Undoing: Changing Beliefs Through Inquiry", Cambridge University Press (1991).
* "For the Sake of the Argument: Ramsey Test Conditionals, Inductive Inference and Nonmonotonic Reasoning", Cambridge University Press (1996).
* "The Covenant of Reason: Rationality and the Commitments of Thought", Cambridge University Press (1997).