Classical probability in the Enlightenment /

What did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason? Classical probabilists from Jakob Bernouli through Pierre Simon Laplace intended their theory as an answer to this question--as "nothing more at bottom than good sense reduced to a calculus," in Laplace's words. In terms that can...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Daston, Lorraine, 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1988.
Temas:
1800-1899
Probabilities > History > 19th century.
Science > History > 19th century.
Probabilités > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Sciences > Histoire > 19e siècle.
SCIENCE / History
Probabilities
Science
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER ONE. The Prehistory of the Classical Interpretation of Probability: Expectation and Evidence
  • CHAPTER TWO. Expectation and the Reasonable Man
  • CHAPTER THREE. The Theory and Practice of Risk
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Associationism. and the Meaning of Probability
  • CHAPTER FIVE. The Probability of Causes
  • CHAPTER SIX. Moralizing Mathematics
  • EPILOGUE. The Decline of the Classical Theory
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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