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

Name: Emergence of Probability A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference
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ISBN: 9780521685573

ISBN-10: 0521685575

ISBN-13: 9780521685573

Edition: 2nd 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Ian Hacking

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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 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 debates center around figures such as Pascal, Leibniz, and Jacques Bernoulli. Hacking invokes a wider intellectual framework involving the growth of science, economics, and the theology of the period. He argues that the transformations that made it possible for probability…

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List price: $31.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/31/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 246
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Ian Hacking is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. He holds the chair of Philosophy and History of Concepts at the College de France. Among his many books, the most recent is Rewriting the Soul.




An absent family of ideas



Duality



Opinion



Evidence



Signs



The first calculations



The Roannez circle (1654)



The great decision (1658?)



The art of thinking (1662)



Probability and the law (1665)



Expectation (1657)



Political arithmetic (1662)



Annuities (1671)



Equipossibility (1678)



Inductive logic



The art of conjecturing (1692[?] published 1713)



The first limit theorem



Design



Induction (1737)


Bibliography


Index