Probability Theory

Philosophy, Recent History and Relations to Science
2001
ISBN: 978-0-7923-6952-3
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 297, 197 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1030 g

Reihe: Synthese Library

This volume in the Synthese Library Series is the result of a con­ ference held at the Roskilde University, Denmark, September 16- 18, 1998. The purpose of this meeting was to shed light on some of the recent issues in probability theory and track their history; to analyze their philosophical and mathematical significance, and to analyze the role of mathematical probability theory in other sciences. Hence the conference was called Probability Theory­ Philosophy! Recent History and Relations to Science. The editors would like to thank the invited speakers includ­ ing in alphabetical order Prof. N.H. Bingham (BruneI Univer­ sity), Prof. Berna KIlmc; (Bogazici University), Prof. Eberhard Knoblock (Techniche Universitat Berlin), Prof. J.B. Paris (Uni­ versity of Manchester), Prof. T. Seidenfeld (Carnegie Mellon University), Prof. Glenn Shafer (Rutgers University) and Prof. Volodya Vovk (University of London) for contributing, in the most lucid and encouraging way, to the fulfillment of the con­ ference aim. The editors are also grateful to the invited speakers for making their contributions available for publication. The conference was organized by the Danish Network on the History and Philosophy of Mathematics http://mmf.ruc.dkjmathnetj The editors would like to thank the network's organizing com­ mittee consisting of Prof. Kirsti Andersen (University of Aarhus), Prof. Jesper Liitzen (University of Copenhagen), Dr. Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen (Roskilde University) and the committee's secretaries Lise Mariane Jeppesen and Jesper Thrane (Roskilde University).

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hendricks, Vincent F.

Jørgensen, Klaus Frovin

Pedersen, Stig Andur

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Geschichte der Mathematik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Mathematische Statistik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Datenanalyse, Datenverarbeitung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Original Abstracts.- 1. The Philosophy and Recent History of Probability Theory and Statistics.- Probability and Statistics: Some Thoughts at the Turn of the Millennium.- Kolmogorov’s Complexity Conception of Probability.- Emile Borel’s View of Probability Theory.- The Reception of John Venn’s Philosophy of Probability.- 2. Contemporary Issues in Probability Theory and Statistics.- On the Distribution of Probability Functions in the Natural World.- Nature’s Possibilities and Expectations.- Remarks on the Theory of Conditional Probability: Some Issues of Finite versus Countable Additivity.