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From Zeno to arbitrage essays on quantity, coherence, and induction
Title:
From Zeno to arbitrage essays on quantity, coherence, and induction
Author:
Skyrms, Brian.
ISBN:
9780191745829

9780199652815

9781283960830

9780191655364
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Publication Information:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (254 pages)
Contents:
pt. I. Zeno and the metaphysics of quantity. Zeno's paradox of measure -- Tractarian nominalism -- Logical atoms and combinatorial possibility -- Strict coherence, sigma coherence, and the metaphysics of quantity -- pt. II. Coherent degrees of belief. 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 -- pt. III. Induction. Carnapian inductive logic for Markov chains -- Carnapian inductive logic and Bayesian statistics -- Bayesian projectability.
Abstract:
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.
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