Beyond Chance and Credence makes a clear contribution to understanding the relationship between probability theory and physics. Probability has proved to be an especially obstreperous field for mathematical philosophy.
Wayne C. Myrvold is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario, where he has been a faculty member since 1997. He received his PhD at Boston University under the supervision of Judson Webb and Abner Shimony. His work has focussed on philosophy of physics and on confirmation theory. He has served as an editor for Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics since 2010, and has been subject editor for Quantum Mechanics for The
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy since 2009.