James M. Joyce is theC. H. Langford Collegiate Professor of Philosophy at theUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor.^[1] He specializes in the philosophy ofprobability.

Joyce obtained bachelor's degrees in philosophy and in mathematics atJohn Carroll University in 1980. He taught as an adjunct faculty member at theUniversity of the District of Columbia from 1987 through 1990. He earned his doctorate from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1991, joining the philosophy faculty there as an assistant professor. He was promoted to full professor in 2006 and awarded the title of C. H. Langford Collegiate Professor in 2012.^[1] He was elected a member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2024.^[2] TheAmerican Philosophical Association selected him to give the 2026John Dewey Lecture for its central division.^[3]

• Joyce, J. M. (1999).The Foundations of Causal Decision Theory. Cambridge University Press.doi:10.1017/CBO9780511498497.ISBN 978-0-521-64164-7.^[4][5][6][7]
• Joyce, J. M. (September 30, 2003)."Bayes' Theorem". InZalta, Edward N. (ed.).Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2003 ed.).ISSN 1095-5054.OCLC 429049174.
• Joyce, J. M. (2011). "Kullback–Leibler Divergence".International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science. Springer. pp. 720–722.doi:10.1007/978-3-642-04898-2_327.ISBN 978-3-642-04897-5.

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