- ISBN: 9780199607617 | 0199607613
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 10/25/2016
Alan Hajek, Australian National University,Christopher Hitchcock, California Institute of Technology
Alan Hajek 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.
Introduction, Alan Hajek and Christopher Hitchcock
1. Probability for Everyone--Even Philosophers, Alan Hajek and Chris Hitchcock
History
2. Pre-history of Probability, James Franklin
3. Probability in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Continental Europe from the Perspective of Jacob Bernoulli's Art of Conjecturing, Edith Dudley Sylla
4. Probability and its Application in Britain during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, D. R. Bellhouse
5. A Brief History of Probability Theory from 1810 to 1940, Hans Fischer
6. The Origins of Modern Statistics: The English Statistical School, John Aldrich
7. The Origins of Probabilistic Epistemology: Some leading philosophers of probability in the 20th century, Maria Carla Galavotti
Formalism
8. Kolmogorov's Axiomatization and its Discontents, Aidan Lyon
9. Conditional Probability, Kenny Easwaran
10. The Bayesian Network Story, Richard Neapolitan and Xia Jiang
Alternatives to Standard Probability Theory
11. Alternatives to Standard Probability and their Motivation, Terrence Fine
12. Probability and Non-classical Logic, J. Robert G. Williams
13. A Logic of Comparative Support: Qualitative Conditional Probability Relations Representable by Popper Functions, James Hawthorne
14. Imprecise probabilities, Fabio G. Cozman
Interpretations and Interpretive Issues
15. Symmetry Arguments in Probability
16. Frequentism in Probability Theory, Adam La Caze
17. Subjectivism in Probability Theory, Lyle Zynda
18. Bayesianism vs. Frequentism in Statistical Inference, Jan Sprenger
19. The Propensity Interpretation of Probability, Donald Gillies
20. Best System Approaches to Chance, Wolfgang Schwarz
21. Probability and Randomness, Antony Eagle
22. Chance and Determinism, Roman Frigg
Probabilistic Judgment and its Applications
23. Human Understandings of Probability, Michael Smithson
24. Probability Elicitation, Stephen C. Hora
25. Probabilistic Opinion Pooling, Franz Dietrich & Christian List
Applications of Probability: Science
26. Quantum Probability, Guido Bacciagaluppi
27. Probabilities in Statistical Mechanics, Wayne C. Myrvold
28. Probability in Biology: The Case of Fitness, Roberta L. Millstein
Applications of Probability: Philosophy
29. Probability in Epistemology, Matt Kotzen
30. Confirmation Theory, Vincenzo Crupi & Katya Tentori
31. Self-Locating Credences, Michael G. Titelbaum
32. Probability in Logic, Hannes Leitgeb
33. Probability in Ethics, David McCarthy
34. Probability and the Philosophy of Religion, Paul Bartha
35. Probability in Philosophy of Language, Eric Swanson
36. Decision Theory, Lara Buchak
37. Probabilistic Causation, Christopher Hitchcock
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