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Philosophy and probability /
Probability is increasingly important for our understanding of the world. What is probability? How do we model it, and how do we use it? Timothy Childers presents a lively introduction to the foundations of probability and to philosophical issues it raises. He keeps technicalities to a minimum, and...
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
c2013.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Probabilities and relative frequencies
- 2. Propensities and other physical probabilities
- 3. Subjective probabilities
- 4. Subjective and objective probabilities
- 5. The classical and logical interpretations
- 6. The maximum entropy principle.