The Oxford handbook of probability and philosophy /
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...
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Oxford handbook of probability and philosophy
Probability and philosophy
Introduction to the Volume /
Conditional Probability /
Alternatives to Standard Probability and their Motivation /
Probability and Non-classical Logic /
A Logic of Comparative Support: Qualitative Conditional Probability Relations Representable by Popper Functions /
Imprecise probabilities /
Symmetry Arguments in Probability /
Frequentism /
The Propensity Interpretation /
Best Systems Approaches to Chance /
Probability for Everyone—Even Philosophers /
Subjectivism /
Probability and Randomness /
Bayesianism vs. Frequentism in Statistical Inference /
Chance and Determinism /
Quantum Probability /
Probabilities in Statistical Mechanics /
Probability in Biology: The Case of Fitness /
Human Understandings of Probability /
Pre-history of Probability /
Probability Elicitation /
The Bayesian Network Story /
Probability in Epistemology /
Confirmation Theory /
Self-locating Credences /
Probability in Logic /
Probability in Ethics /
Probabilistic Opinion Pooling /
Probability and the Philosophy of Religion /
Probability in Philosophy of Language /
Probability in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Continental Europe from the Perspective of Jacob Bernoulli's Art of Conjecturing /
Decision Theory /
Probabilistic Causation /
Probability and its Application in Britain During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries /
A Brief History of Probability Theory from 1810 to 1940 /
The Origins of Modern Statistics: The English Statistical School /
The Origins of Probabilistic Epistemology: Some leading philosophers of probability in the 20th century /
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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.
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- 1 online resource
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- Previously issued in print: 2016.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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