The Oxford Handbook of Probability and Philosophy

Herausgeber: Hajek, Alan; Hitchcock, Christopher

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. Nearly forty articles present new insights into the intersection of these two fields.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Handbooks
• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 880
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 269mm x 180mm x 2mm
• Gewicht: 1596g
• ISBN-13: 9780199607617
• ISBN-10: 0199607613
• Artikelnr.: 44479507

Autorenporträt

Alan Hájek is Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University. ; Christopher Hitchcock is J. O. and Juliette Koepfli Professor of Philosophy in the Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences at California Institute of Technology.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Alan Hájek and Chris Hitchcock: Probability for Everyone--Even
Philosophers
* History
* 2: James Franklin: Pre-history of Probability
* 3: Edith Dudley Sylla: Probability in Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Century Continental Europe from the Perspective of Jacob Bernoulli's
Art of Conjecturing
* 4: D. R. Bellhouse: Probability and its Application in Britain during
the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
* 5: Hans Fischer: A Brief History of Probability Theory from 1810 to
1940
* 6: John Aldrich: The Origins of Modern Statistics: The English
Statistical School
* 7: Maria Carla Galavotti: The Origins of Probabilistic Epistemology:
Some leading philosophers of probability in the 20th century
* Formalism
* 8: Aidan Lyon: Kolmogorov's Axiomatization and its Discontents
* 9: Kenny Easwaran: Conditional Probability
* 10: Richard Neapolitan and Xia Jiang: The Bayesian Network Story
* Alternatives to Standard Probability Theory
* 11: Terrence Fine: Alternatives to Standard Probability and their
Motivation
* 12: J. Robert G. Williams: Probability and Non-classical Logic
* 13: James Hawthorne: A Logic of Comparative Support: Qualitative
Conditional Probability Relations Representable by Popper Functions
* 14: Fabio G. Cozman: Imprecise probabilities
* Interpretations and Interpretive Issues
* 15: Symmetry Arguments in Probability
* 16: Adam La Caze: Frequentism in Probability Theory
* 17: Lyle Zynda: Subjectivism in Probability Theory
* 18: Jan Sprenger: Bayesianism vs. Frequentism in Statistical
Inference
* 19: Donald Gillies: The Propensity Interpretation of Probability
* 20: Wolfgang Schwarz: Best System Approaches to Chance
* 21: Antony Eagle: Probability and Randomness
* 22: Roman Frigg: Chance and Determinism
* Probabilistic Judgment and its Applications
* 23: Michael Smithson: Human Understandings of Probability
* 24: Stephen C. Hora: Probability Elicitation
* 25: Franz Dietrich and Christian List: Probabilistic Opinion Pooling
* Applications of Probability: Science
* 26: Guido Bacciagaluppi: Quantum Probability
* 27: Wayne C. Myrvold: Probabilities in Statistical Mechanics
* 28: Roberta L. Millstein: Probability in Biology: The Case of Fitness
* Applications of Probability: Philosophy
* 29: Matt Kotzen: Probability in Epistemology
* 30: Vincenzo Crupi and Katya Tentori: Confirmation Theory
* 31: Michael G. Titelbaum: Self-Locating Credences
* 32: Hannes Leitgeb: Probability in Logic
* 33: David McCarthy: Probability in Ethics
* 34: Paul Bartha: Probability and the Philosophy of Religion
* 35: Eric Swanson: Probability in Philosophy of Language
* 36: Lara Buchak: Decision Theory
* 37: Christopher Hitchcock: Probabilistic Causation