Michael J. Wichura, Ian HackingThe Emergence of Probability
A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference
Ian Hacking holds the chair of philosophy and history of scientific concepts at the College de France. Until recently he was a University Professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of many books, including Representing and Intervening, The Taming of Chance, Probability and Inductive Logic, and most recently Historical Ontology. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the American Academy of Arts and Science, and the British Academy. In 2004 he was elected a Companion of the Order of Canada. He is also the winner of the Holberg International Memorial Prize 2009.
Introduction
1. An absent family of ideas
2. Duality
3. Opinion
4. Evidence
5. Signs
6. The first calculations
7. The Roannez circle
8. The great decision
9. The art of thinking
10. Probability and the law
11. Expectation
12. Political arithmetic
13. Annuities
14. Equipossibility
15. Inductive logic
16. The art of conjecturing
17. The first limit theorem
18. Design
19. Induction.