Epistemology and Inference.
Title:
Epistemology and Inference.
Author:
Kyburg, Henry E.
ISBN:
9780816655588
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (334 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. General -- 1. Prophecies and Pretensions -- 2. Two World Views -- 3. Tyche and Athena -- Part II. Critical Probability Papers -- 4. Probability and Decision -- 5. Bets and Beliefs -- 6. Subjective Probability: Criticisms, Reflections, and Problems -- 7. Chance -- 8. Logical and Fiducial Probability -- Part III. Constructive Probability Papers -- 9. The Nature of Epistemological Probability -- 10. Probability and Randomness -- 11. Probability and Informative Inference -- 12. Epistemological Probability -- Part IV. Epistemology -- 13. Epistemology and Induction -- 14. Conjunctivitis -- 15. Probability, Rationality, and a Rule of Detachment -- 16. Local and Global Induction -- Part V. Theory and Generalization -- 17. How to Make Up a Theory -- 18. An Interpolation Theorem for Inductive Relations -- 19. All Acceptable Generalizations Are Analytic -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
Epistemology and Inference was first published in 1983. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Henry Kyburg has developed an original and important perspective on probabilistic and statistical inference. Unlike much contemporary writing by philosophers on these topics, Kyburg's work is informed by issues that have arisen in statistical theory and practice as well as issues familiar to professional philosophers. In two major books and many articles, Kyberg has elaborated his technical proposals and explained their ramifications for epistemology, decision-making, and scientific inquiry. In this collection of published and unpublished essays, Kyburg presents his novel ideas and their applications in a manner that makes them accessible to philosophers and provides specialists in probability and induction with a concise exposition of his system.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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