Laurence Jonathan Cohen, FBA (7 May 1923 – 26 September 2006), was a British philosopher.
He was educated at St. Paul's School, London and Balliol College, Oxford.
His best-known book, The Probable and the Provable (1977), argued in favour of inductive reasoning when making decisions, such as when serving on a jury.
The human ability to bring in all the relevant factors when arguing from known specifics to a general conclusion—the essence of inductive reasoning—was in his view far too complex to express in a logical equation.
Jonathan Cohen obituary in The Daily Telegraph (archived by Wayback Machine)