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Title The Oxford handbook of probability and philosophy / edited by Alan Hájek and Christopher Hitchcock
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017
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Description 1 online resource
Series Oxford handbooks online
Oxford handbooks online.
Contents Introduction to the Volume / Alan Hájek, Christopher Hitchcock -- Conditional Probability / Kenny Easwaran -- Alternatives to Standard Probability and their Motivation / Terrence Fine -- Probability and Non-classical Logic / J. Robert G. Williams -- A Logic of Comparative Support: Qualitative Conditional Probability Relations Representable by Popper Functions / James Hawthorne -- Imprecise probabilities / Fabio Cozman -- Symmetry Arguments in Probability / Sandy Zabell -- Frequentism / Adam La Caze -- The Propensity Interpretation / Donald Gillies -- Best Systems Approaches to Chance / Wolfgang Schwarz -- Probability for Everyone--Even Philosophers / Alan Hájek, Christopher Hitchcock -- Subjectivism / Lyle Zynda -- Probability and Randomness / Antony Eagle -- Bayesianism vs. Frequentism in Statistical Inference / Jan Sprenger -- Chance and Determinism / Roman Frigg -- Quantum Probability / Guido Bacciagaluppi -- Probabilities in Statistical Mechanics / Wayne Myrvold -- Probability in Biology: The Case of Fitness / Roberta Millstein -- Human Understandings of Probability / Michael Smithson -- Pre-history of Probability / James Franklin -- Probability Elicitation / Stephen Hora -- The Bayesian Network Story / Richard Neapolitan, Xia Jiang -- Probability in Epistemology / Matthew Kotzen -- Confirmation Theory / Vincenzo Crupi, Katya Tentori -- Self-locating Credences / Michael Titelbaum -- Probability in Logic / Hannes Leitgeb -- Probability in Ethics / David McCarthy -- Probabilistic Opinion Pooling / Franz Dietrich, Christian List -- Probability and the Philosophy of Religion / Paul Bartha -- Probability in Philosophy of Language / Eric Swanson -- Probability in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Continental Europe from the Perspective of Jacob Bernoulli's Art of Conjecturing / Edith Sylla -- Decision Theory / Lara Buchak -- Probabilistic Causation / Christopher Hitchcock -- Probability and its Application in Britain During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / David 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 philosophers of probability in the 20th century / Maria Carla Galavotti -- Kolmogorov's Axiomatization and its Discontents / Aidan Lyon
Summary Probability theory is a key tool of the physical, mathematical, and social sciences, and is playing an increasingly important role in many areas of philosophy. This handbook furthers the influence of philosophy on probability, and of probability on philosophy. Almost 40 articles present new insights into the intersection of these two fields
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 30, 2017)
Subject Probabilities -- Philosophy
Probabilities -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
Author Hájek, Alan, 1962- editor.
Hitchcock, Christopher, 1964- editor.
ISBN 9780191749797
0191749796
Other Titles Probability and philosophy