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The Emergence of Probability - Ian Hacking

The Emergence of Probability

A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference

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Buch | Softcover
218 Seiten
1984
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-31803-7 (ISBN)
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Ian Hacking here presents a philosophical critique of early ideas about probability, induction and statistical inference and the growth of this new family of ideas in the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The contemporary debate centres round such figures as Pascal, Leibniz and jacques Bernoulli.
Historical records show that there was no real concept of probability in Europe before the mid-seventeenth century although the use of dice and other randomizing objects was commonplace. Ian Hacking here presents a philosophical critique of early ideas about probability, induction and statistical inference and the growth of this new family of ideas in the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The contemporary debate centres round such figures as Pascal, Leibniz and Jacques Bernoulli. What brought about the change in ideas? The author invokes in his explanation a wider intellectual framework involving the growth of science, economics and the theology of the period.

1. An absent family of ideas; 2. Duality; 3. Opinion; 4. Evidence; 5. Signs; 6. The first calculations; 7. The Roannez circle (1654); 8. The great decision (1658?); 9. The art of thinking (1662); 10. Probability and the law (1665); 11. Expectation (1657); 12. Political arithmetic (1662); 13. Annuities (1671); 14. Equipossibility (1678); 15. Inductive logic; 16. The art of conjecturing (1692[?] published 1713); 17. The first limit theorem; 18. Design; 19. Induction (1737); Bibliography; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 21.6.1984
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 137 x 213 mm
Gewicht 271 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Logik
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Wahrscheinlichkeit / Kombinatorik
ISBN-10 0-521-31803-3 / 0521318033
ISBN-13 978-0-521-31803-7 / 9780521318037
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