Classical Probability in the Enlightenment, New Edition
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Classical Probability in the Enlightenment, New Edition

  1. 448 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Classical Probability in the Enlightenment, New Edition

About this book

An award-winning history of the Enlightenment quest to devise a mathematical model of rationality

What did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason? Enlightenment mathematicians such as Blaise Pascal, Jakob Bernoulli, and Pierre Simon Laplace sought to answer this question, laboring over a theory of rational decision, action, and belief under conditions of uncertainty. Lorraine Daston brings to life their debates and philosophical arguments, charting the development and application of probability theory by some of the greatest thinkers of the age. Now with an incisive new preface, Classical Probability in the Enlightenment traces the emergence of new kind of mathematics designed to turn good sense into a reasonable calculus.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface to the 2023 Edition
  7. Preface and Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter One: The Prehistory of the Classical Interpretation of Probability: Expectation and Evidence
  10. Chapter Two:Expectation and the Reasonable Man
  11. Chapte Three: The Theory and Practice of Risk
  12. Chapter Four: Associationism and the Meaning of Probability
  13. Chapter Five:The Probability of Causes
  14. Chapter Six: Moralizing Mathematics
  15. Epilogue: The Decline of the Classical Theory
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index

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