The Oxford Handbook of Probability and Philosophy

NOTE EDITORE

Probability theory is a key tool of the physical, mathematical, and social sciences. It has also been playing an increasingly significant role in philosophy: in epistemology, philosophy of science, ethics, social philosophy, philosophy of religion, and elsewhere. A case can be made that probability is as vital a part of the philosopher's toolkit as logic. Moreover, there is a fruitful two-way street between probability theory and philosophy: the theory informs much of the work of philosophers, and philosophical inquiry, in turn, has shed considerable light on the theory. This Handbook encapsulates and furthers the influence of philosophy on probability, and of probability on philosophy. Nearly forty articles summarise the state of play and present new insights in various areas of research at the intersection of these two fields. The articles will be of special interest to practitioners of probability who seek a greater understanding of its mathematical and conceptual foundations, and to philosophers who want to get up to speed on the cutting edge of research in this area. There is plenty here to entice philosophical readers who don't work especially on probability but who want to learn more about it and its applications. Indeed, this volume should appeal to the intellectually curious generally; after all, there is much here to be curious about. We do not expect all of this volume's audience to have a thorough training in probability theory. And while probability is relevant to the work of many philosophers, they often do not have much of a background in its formalism. With this in mind, we begin with 'Probability for Everyone--Even Philosophers', a primer on those parts of probability theory that we believe are most important for philosophers to know. The rest of the volume is divided into seven main sections: History; Formalism; Alternatives to Standard Probability Theory; Interpretations and Interpretive Issues; Probabilistic Judgment and Its Applications; Applications of Probability: Science; and Applications of Probability: Philosophy.

SOMMARIO

1 - Probability for Everyone--Even Philosophers2 - Pre-history of Probability3 - Probability in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Continental Europe from the Perspective of Jacob Bernoulli's Art of Conjecturing4 - Probability and its Application in Britain during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries5 - A Brief History of Probability Theory from 1810 to 19406 - The Origins of Modern Statistics: The English Statistical School7 - The Origins of Probabilistic Epistemology: Some leading philosophers of probability in the 20th century8 - Kolmogorov's Axiomatization and its Discontents9 - Conditional Probability10 - The Bayesian Network Story11 - Alternatives to Standard Probability and their Motivation12 - Probability and Non-classical Logic13 - A Logic of Comparative Support: Qualitative Conditional Probability Relations Representable by Popper Functions14 - Imprecise probabilities15 - Symmetry Arguments in Probability16 - Frequentism in Probability Theory17 - Subjectivism in Probability Theory18 - Bayesianism vs. Frequentism in Statistical Inference19 - The Propensity Interpretation of Probability20 - Best System Approaches to Chance21 - Probability and Randomness22 - Chance and Determinism23 - Human Understandings of Probability24 - Probability Elicitation25 - Probabilistic Opinion Pooling26 - Quantum Probability27 - Probabilities in Statistical Mechanics28 - Probability in Biology: The Case of Fitness29 - Probability in Epistemology30 - Confirmation Theory31 - Self-Locating Credences32 - Probability in Logic33 - Probability in Ethics34 - Probability and the Philosophy of Religion35 - Probability in Philosophy of Language36 - Decision Theory37 - Probabilistic Causation

AUTORE

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.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199607617
• Collana: Oxford Handbooks
• Dimensioni: 252 x 50.6 x 185 mm Ø 1604 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 878