The Oxford handbook of probability and philosophy

Probability for everyone -- even philosophers / Alan Hajek and Christopher Hitchcock -- Pre-history of probability / James Franklin -- Probability in 17th- and 18th-century continental Europe from the perspective of Jacob Bernoulli's Art of conjecturing / Edith Dudley Sylla -- Probability and i...

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Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford University Press 2016
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Zusammenfassung:Probability for everyone -- even philosophers / Alan Hajek and Christopher Hitchcock -- Pre-history of probability / James Franklin -- Probability in 17th- and 18th-century continental Europe from the perspective of Jacob Bernoulli's Art of conjecturing / Edith Dudley Sylla -- Probability and its application in Britain during the 17th and 18th centuries / David R. Bellhouse -- A brief history of probability theory from 1810 to 1940 / Hans Fischer -- The origins of modern statistics: the English statistical school / John Aldrich -- The origins of probabilistic epistemology: some leading 20th-century philosophers of probability / Maria Carla Galavotti -- Kolmogorov's axiomatization and its discontents / Aidan Lyon -- Conditional probability / Kenny Easwaran -- The Bayesian network story / Richard E. Neapolitan and Xia Jiang -- Mathematical alternatives to standard probability that provide selectable degrees of precision / Terrence L. Fine -- Probability and nonclassical logic / J. Robert G. Williams -- A logic of comparative support: qualitative conditional probability relations representable by Popper functions / James Hawthorne -- Imprecise and indeterminate probabilities / Fabio G. Cozman -- Symmetry arguments in probability / Sandy Zabell -- Frequentism / Adam la Caze -- Subjectivism / Lyle Zynda -- Bayesianism vs. frequentism in statistical inference / Jan Sprenger -- The propensity interpretation / Donald Gillies -- Best system approaches to chance / Wolfgang Schwarz -- Probability and randomness / Antony Eagle -- Chance and determinism / Roman Frigg -- Human understandings of probability / Michael Smithson -- Probability elicitation / Stephen C. Hora -- Probabilistic opinion pooling / Franz Dietrich and Christian List -- Quantum probability: an introduction / Guido Bacciagaluppi -- Probabilities in statistical mechanics / Wayne C. Myrvold -- Probability in biology: the case of fitness / Roberta L. Millstein -- Probability in epistemology / Matthew Kotzen -- Confirmation theory / Vincenzo Crupi and Katya Tentori -- Self-locating credence / Michael G. Titelbaum -- Probability in logic / Hannes Leitgeb -- Probability in ethics / David McCarthy -- Probability and the philosophy of religion / Paul Bartha -- Probability in philosophy of language / Eric Swanson -- Decision theory / Lara Buchak -- Probabilistic causation / Christopher Hitchcock
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