Maria Carla Galavotti (born 1947)[1] is a retired Italian philosopher of science, an emeritus professor at the University of Bologna.
Particular concerns of her work have included subjectivist Bayesianism, according to which probability describes a personal belief, the origins of subjectivism in the works of Frank Ramsey and Bruno de Finetti, and the use of probability to describe causal relationships.
[3] Galavotti began working at the University of Bologna as a researcher in philosophy in 1975.
She became an associate professor there from 1982 until 1994, when she moved to a full professorship at the University of Trieste.
[4] Galavotti was elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2014.