From Zeno to arbitrage : essays on quantity, coherence, and induction /

From Zeno to arbitrage : essays on quantity, coherence, and induction /

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Author / Creator:Skyrms, Brian.
Imprint:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Description:1 online resource (254 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Knowledge, Theory of.
Metaphysics.
Quantity (Philosophy)
Sense of coherence.
Induction (Logic)
Induction (Logic)
Knowledge, Theory of.
Metaphysics.
Quantity (Philosophy)
Sense of coherence.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12481249
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ISBN:9780191745829
0191745820
9780199652815
0199652813
9781283960830
1283960834
0191655368
9780191655364
9780199652808
0199652805
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on Dec. 14, 2012).
Summary:Brian Skyrms presents a set of influential essays which deploy formal methods to address epistemological and metaphysical questions. The first part of the book focuses on quantity; the second on degrees of belief, belief revision, and coherence; the third on aspects of inductive reasoning.
Other form:Print version 9780199652808
Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. Zeno and the metaphysics of quantity. Zeno's paradox of measure
  • Tractarian nominalism
  • Logical atoms and combinatorial possibility
  • Strict coherence, sigma coherence, and the metaphysics of quantity
  • pt. II. Coherent degrees of belief. Higher-order degrees of belief
  • A mistake in dynamic coherence arguments?
  • Dynamic coherence and probability kinematics
  • Updating, supposing, and MAXENT
  • The structure of radical probabilism
  • Diachronic coherence and radical probabilism
  • pt. III. Induction. Carnapian inductive logic for Markov chains
  • Carnapian inductive logic and Bayesian statistics
  • Bayesian projectability.

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