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The future of post-human probability : towards a new theory of objectivity and subjectivity /
Is the degree of probability that an individual holds when betting on a particular outcome really so subjective that, as Frank Ramsey once argued, ""objective logical relations"" do not exist and that ""probability is 'the logic of partial belief'""?...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hauppauge, New York :
Nova Science Publishers, Inc.,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- The Future of Post-Human Probability; The Future of Post-Human Probability: Towards a New Theory of Objectivity and Subjectivity; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; BOOKS ALSO BY PETER BAOFU; CONTENTS; TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; PART ONE: Introduction; CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION -THE USE OF PROBABILITY; A Questioning of Probability; Definition and History of Probability; Objectivity and Subjectivity in Probability; Diverse Aspects of Probability; The Theoretical Debate; The Interpretivist Theory of Probability; Theory and Meta-Theory.
- The Logic of Existential DialecticsSophisticated Methodological Holism; Chapter Outline; Some Clarifications; PART TWO: Objectivity; CHAPTER 2 OBJECTIVITY AND ITS AMBIVALENCE; The Robustness of Objectivity; Objectivity and the Mind; Objectivity and Nature; Objectivity and Society; Objectivity and Culture; The Dogmaticalness of Objectivity; PART THREE: Subjectivity; CHAPTER 3 SUBJECTIVITY AND ITS DUALITY; The Flexibility of Subjectivity; Subjectivity and the Mind; Subjectivity and ature; Subjectivity and Society; Subjectivity and Culture; The Opinionatedness of Subjectivity.
- PART FOUR: ConclusionCHAPTER 4 CONCLUSION-THE FUTURE OF PROBABILITY; Beyond Objectivity and Subjectivity; In Relation to Method; In Relation to Structure; In Relation to Process; In Relation to Agency; In Relation to Outcome; 31st Thesis: The Post-Human Interpretiveness; Towards the Post-Human Interpretiveness; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.