From Zeno to arbitrage : essays on quantity, coherence, and induction /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Skyrms, Brian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Temas:
Knowledge, Theory of.
Metaphysics.
Quantity (Philosophy)
Sense of coherence.
Induction (Logic)
Metaphysics
Théorie de la connaissance.
Métaphysique.
Quantité (Philosophie)
Cohérence cognitive.
Induction (Logique)
epistemology.
metaphysics.
PHILOSOPHY > Logic.
Knowledge, Theory of
Sense of coherence
Erkenntnistheorie
Induktion
Kohärenz
Logik
Menge
Metaphysik
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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