An introduction to probability and inductive logic

✍ Scribed by Hacking, Ian

Publisher: Cambridge Univ. Press
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 322
Edition: 1. publ., 9. print
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Part I. Logic: 1. Logic
2. What is inductive logic?
Part II. How to Calculate Probabilities: 3. The gambler's fallacy
4. Elementary probability
5. Conditional probability
6. Basic laws of probability
7. Bayes' rule
Part III. How to Combine Probabilities and Utilities: 8. Expected value
9. Maximizing expected value
10. Decision under uncertainty
Part IV. Kinds of Probability: 11. What do you mean?
12. Theories about probability
Part V. Probability as a Measure of Belief: 13. Personal probabilities
14. Coherence
15. Learning from experience
Part VI. Probability as Frequency: 16. Stability
17. Normal approximations
18. Significance
19. Confidence and inductive behaviour
Part VII. Probability Applied to Philosophy: 20. The philosophical problem of induction
21. Learning from experience as an evasion of the problem
22. Inductive behaviour as an evasion of the problem.

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