Philosophy of Probability

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

2010 | Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1993
Springer (Verlag)
978-90-481-4301-6 (ISBN)

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Philosophy of Probability provides a comprehensive introduction to theoretical issues that occupy a central position in disciplines ranging from philosophy of mind and epistemology to cognitive science, decision theory and artificial intelligence. Some contributions shed new light on the standard conceptions of probability (Bayesianism, logical and computational theories); others offer detailed analyses of two important topics in the field of cognitive science: the meaning and the representation of (partial) belief, and the management of uncertainty. The authors of this well-balanced account are philosophers as well as computer scientists (among them, L.J. Cohen, D. Miller, P. Gärdenfors, J. Vickers, D. Dubois and H. Prade). This multidisciplinary approach to probability is designed to illuminate the intricacies of the problems in the domain of cognitive inquiry. No one interested in epistemology or aritificial intelligence will want to miss it.

Content.- 1: Personalistic Bayesianism.- 2: On Higher Order Beliefs.- 3: On the Logic of Relevance.- 4: Diverging Distributions.- 5: Inductive Logic Revisited.- 6: Probability and Utility.- 7: What Has Probability to Do with Strength of Belief.- 8: Randomness, Unpredictability and Absence of Order: The Identification by the Theory of Recursivity of the Mathematical Notion of Random Sequence.- 9: A Glance at Non-Standard Models and Logics of Uncertainty and Vagueness.- 10: Causal Laws are Objectifications of Inductive Schemes.- 11: Probabilistic Inference in Artificial Intelligence: The Method of Bayesian Networks.

Reihe/Serie	Philosophical Studies Series ; 56
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 296 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Wahrscheinlichkeit / Kombinatorik
ISBN-10	90-481-4301-2 / 9048143012
ISBN-13	978-90-481-4301-6 / 9789048143016
Zustand	Neuware