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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.

Table of Contents:
Alan Hájek and Christopher Hitchcock: 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 & 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 & 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

About the Author :
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.

Review :
I have found this volume to be a handy resource for both research and teaching, not least because the articles are in large part accessible and well written. This monumental book comprises thirty seven essays written by experts in various areas in the intersection of probability and philosophy ... As a personal resource on probability and its applications, it is unparalleled in both scope and informativeness. ... The book would also be useful in a high-level undergraduate or graduate course on probability. The essays are written with the aim, not so much of advancing current debates, but of bringing the reader up to speed on recent developments and current states of affairs. This is convenient for the reader looking to educate herself; it is easy to learn a great deal from this book ... The essays here are consistently of high quality. This is a superb resource.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199607617
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • Height: 252 mm
  • No of Pages: 878
  • Spine Width: 51 mm
  • Width: 185 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0199607613
  • Publisher Date: 08 Sep 2016
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Oxford Handbooks
  • Weight: 1604 gr


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