The Oxford handbook of probability and philosophy / ed. by A.Hajek, C.Hitchcock. - Oxford: Oxford university press, 2016. - x, 865 p. - Incl. bibl. ref. - Ind. of names: p.833-850. - Sub. ind.: p.851-865. - ISBN 978-0-19-960761-7 Шифр: (И/В17-O.97) 02  Место хранения:   02 | Отделение ГПНТБ СО РАН | Новосибирск

Оглавление / Contents

List of Contributors ........................................... ix Introduction .................................................... 1 Alan Hajek and Christopher Hitchcock 1 Probability for Everyone—Even Philosophers ................... 5 Alan Hajek and Christopher Hitchcock PART I: HISTORY 2 Pre-history of Probability .................................. 33 James Franklin 3 Probability in 17th- and 18th-century Continental Europe from the Perspective of Jacob Bernoulli's Art of Conjecturing ................................................ 50 Edith Dudley Sylla 4 Probability and Its Application in Britain during the 17th and 18th Centuries .......................................... 69 David R. Bellhouse 5 A Brief History of Probability Theory from 1810 to 1940 ..... 87 Hans Fischer 6 The Origins of Modern Statistics: The English Statistical School ..................................................... 112 John Aldrich 7 The Origins of Probabilistic Epistemology: Some Leading 20th-century Philosophers of Probability ................... 130 Maria Carla Galavotti PART II: FORMALISM 8 Kolmogorovs Axiomatization and Its Discontents ............. 155 Aidan Lyon 9 Conditional Probability .................................... 167 Kenny Easwaran 10 The Bayesian Network Story ................................. 183 Richard E. Neapolitan and Xia Jiang PART III: ALTERNATIVES TO STANDARD PROBABILITY THEORY 11 Mathematical Alternatives to Standard Probability that Provide Selectable Degrees of Precision .................... 203 Terrence L. Fine 12 Probability and Nonclassical Logic ......................... 248 J. Robert G. Williams 13 A Logic of Comparative Support: Qualitative Conditional Probability Relations Representable by Popper Functions .... 277 James Hawthorne 14 Imprecise and Indeterminate Probabilities .................. 296 Fabio G. Cozman PART IV: INTERPRETATIONS AND INTERPRETIVE ISSUES 15 Symmetry Arguments in Probability .......................... 315 Sandy Zabell 16 Frequentism ................................................ 341 Adam La Caze 17 Subjectivism ............................................... 360 Lyle Zynda 18 Bayesianism vs. Frequentism in Statistical Inference ....... 382 Jan Sprenger 19 The Propensity Interpretation .............................. 406 Donald Gillies 20 Best System Approaches to Chance ........................... 423 Wolfgang Schwarz 21 Probability and Randomness ................................. 440 Antony Eagle 22 Chance and Determinism ..................................... 460 Roman Frigg PART V: PROBABILISTIC JUDGMENT AND ITS APPLICATIONS 23 Human Understandings of Probability ........................ 477 Michael Smithson 24 Probability Elicitation .................................... 497 Stephen C. Hora 25 Probabilistic Opinion Pooling .............................. 519 Franz Dietrich and Christian List PART VI: APPLICATIONS OF PROBABILITY: SCIENCE 26 Quantum Probability: An Introduction ....................... 545 Guido Bacciagaluppi 27 Probabilities in Statistical Mechanics ..................... 573 Wayne C. Myrvold 28 Probability in Biology: The Case of Fitness ................ 601 Roberta L. Millstein PART VII APPLICATIONS OF PROBABILITY: PHILOSOPHY 29 Probability in Epistemology ................................ 625 Matthew Kotzen 30 Confirmation Theory ........................................ 650 Vincenzo Crupi and Katya Tentori 31 Self-Locating Credences .................................... 666 Michael G. Titelbaum 32 Probability in Logic ....................................... 681 Hannes Leitgeb 33 Probability in Ethics ...................................... 705 David McCarthy 34 Probability and the Philosophy of Religion ................. 738 Paul Bartha 35 Probability in Philosophy of Language ...................... 772 Eric Swanson 36 Decision Theory ............................................ 789 Lara Buchak 37 Probabilistic Causation .................................... 815 Christopher Hitchcock Name Index .................................................... 833 Subject Index ................................................. 851