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Philosophical Lectures on Probability

Philosophical Lectures on Probability

Hardcover

Series: Synthese Library, Book 340

PhilosophyGeneral MathematicsHistory & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 1402082010
ISBN13: 9781402082016
Publisher: Springer
Published: May 20 2008
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Bruno de Finetti (1906-1985) is the founder of the subjective interpretation of probability, together with the British philosopher Frank Plumpton Ramsey. His related notion of exchangeability revolutionized the statistical methodology. This book (based on a course held in 1979) explains in a language accessible also to non-mathematicians the fundamental tenets and implications of subjectivism, according to which the probability of any well specified fact F refers to the degree of belief actually held by someone, on the ground of her whole knowledge, on the truth of the assertion that F obtains.

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