From Zeno to Arbitrage
Essays on Quantity, Coherence, and Induction
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 29 November 2012
- ISBN 9780199652815
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 214x146x12 mm
- Weight 370 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
Brian Skyrms presents a set of influential essays on the nature of quantity, probability, coherence, and induction. The first part explores the nature of quantity and includes essays on tractarian nominalism, combinatorial possibility, and coherence. Part Two proceeds to examine coherent updating of degrees of belief in various learning situations. Finally, in Part Three, Skyrms develops an account of aspects of inductive reasoning, which proceeds from specific problems to general considerations. These essays span the breadth of Skyrms's illustrious career and will be essential reading for scholars and advanced students in philosophy of science and formal epistemology.
this book is a convenient source for a lot of his important work on the application of mathematics to philosophical questions about induction and epistemology, as well as some intriguing ideas for metaphysics . . . I hope that it helps make more philosophers aware of the important work Brian Skyrms has been doing for several decades. This work is well worth studying for anyone dealing with these issues
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgements
I. Zeno and the Metaphysics of Quantity
Introduction
Zeno's Paradox of Measure
Tractarian Nominalism
Logical Atoms and Combinatorial Possibility
Strict Coherence, Sigma Coherence, and the Metaphysics of Quantity
II. Coherent Degrees of Belief
Introduction
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
III. Induction
Introduction
Carnapian Inductive Logic for Markov Chains
Carnapian Inductive Logic and Bayesian Statistics
Bayesian Projectibility
