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The Oxford handbook of probability and philosophy / edited by Alan Hájek, Christopher Hitchcock.
| Other author | Hájek, Alan, 1962- |
| Other author | Hitchcock, Christopher, 1964- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016. |
| Description | x, 865 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Handbooks Online 2017 Philosophy |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Handbooks Online Philosophy |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Oxford handbook of probability and philosophy |
| Portion of title | Probability and philosophy |
| Series | Oxford handbooks in philosophy |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016933498 |
| ISBN | 9780199607617 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0199607613 (hardback) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |