William Eckhardt is a trader.
Education
Eckhardt never finished his PhD in mathematics, claiming that he left graduate school for the trading pits after an unexpected change of thesis advisors. Despite leaving academia prematurely, Eckhardt has published several papers in academic journals. In 1993, Eckhardt's article "Probability Theory and the Doomsday Argument" was published in the philosophical journal ''
Mind
The mind is that which thinks, feels, perceives, imagines, remembers, and wills. It covers the totality of mental phenomena, including both conscious processes, through which an individual is aware of external and internal circumstances ...
''.
His follow-up article, "A Shooting-Room view of Doomsday" was published in ''
The Journal of Philosophy
''The Journal of Philosophy'' is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal on philosophy, founded in 1904 at Columbia University. Its stated purpose is "To publish philosophical articles of current interest and encourage the interchange of ideas, es ...
'' in 1997. Both articles make arguments skeptical of the
Doomsday Argument
The doomsday argument (DA), or Carter catastrophe, is a probabilistic argument that claims to predict the future population of the human species based on an estimation of the number of humans born to date. The doomsday argument was originally ...
as formulated by
John Leslie. In 2006, he published "Causal time asymmetry" in the journal ''Studies In History and Philosophy of Modern Physics''.
In 2013, he published a book "Paradoxes in Probability Theory"
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1955 births
American money managers
American derivatives traders
American financial analysts
American hedge fund managers
Living people
Stock and commodity market managers
20th-century American businesspeople
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