Timothy Childers

Philosophy and Probability

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Produktbeschreibung

A lively introduction to the foundations of probability and the philosophical issues it raises.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 279g
• ISBN-13: 9780199661831
• ISBN-10: 0199661839
• Artikelnr.: 37440057

Autorenporträt

Timothy Childers was born in Louisiana. After an undergraduate education at Louisiana State University, he obtained his doctorate from the London School of Economics. He then moved to Prague where he has ever since been a member of the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1: Probability and Relative Frequencies
2: Propensities and Other Physical Probabilities
3: Subjective Probability
4: Subjective and Objective Probabilities
5: The Classical and Logical Interpretations
6: The Maximum Entropy Principle
Appendices
References