A Philosophical Essay On Probabilities
A Philosophical Essay On Probabilities

Author: Pierre Simon Laplace

Publisher: Franklin Classics

Published: 2018-10-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780341709435

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Pierre-Simon Laplace Philosophical Essay on Probabilities
Pierre-Simon Laplace Philosophical Essay on Probabilities

Author: Pierre-Simon Laplace

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1461241847

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Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827) is remembered among probabilitists today particularly for his "Theorie analytique des probabilites", published in 1812. The "Essai philosophique dur les probabilites" is his introduction for the second edition of this work. Here Laplace provided a popular exposition on his "Theorie". The "Essai", based on a lecture on probability given by Laplace in 1794, underwent sweeping changes, almost doubling in size, in the various editions published during Laplace's lifetime. Translations of various editions in different languages have apeared over the years. The only English translation of 1902 reads awkwardly today. This is a thorough and modern translation based on the recent re-issue, with its voluminous notes, of the fifth edition of 1826, with preface by Rene Thom and postscript by Bernard Bru. In the second part of the book, the reader is provided with an extensive commentary by the translator including valuable histographical and mathematical remarks and various proofs.

Probability is the Very Guide of Life
Probability is the Very Guide of Life

Author: Henry Ely Kyburg

Publisher: Open Court Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780812695137

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This collection of philosophical essays looks at various technical problems in the use of probability theory for guidance in practical decisions. This text is intended for those who already have a basic grounding in philosophy, logic and probabilty theory.

A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities
A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities

Author: Marquis De Pierre Simon Laplace

Publisher: Hardpress Publishing

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9781290316132

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Pierre-Simon Laplace Philosophical Essay on Probabilities
Pierre-Simon Laplace Philosophical Essay on Probabilities

Author: Pierre-Simon Laplace

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1998-03-16

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780387943497

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Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827) is remembered amoung probabilitists today particularly for his "Theorie analytique des probabilites", published in 1812. The "Essai philosophique dur les probabilites" is his introduction for the second edition of this work. Here Laplace provided a popular exposition on his "Theorie". The "Essai", based on a lecture on probability given by Laplace in 1794, underwent sweeping changes, almost doubling in size, in the various editions published during Laplace's lifetime. Translations of various editions in different languages have apeared over the years. The only English translation of 1902 reads awkwardly today. This is a thorough and modern translation based on the recent re-issue, with its voluminous notes, of the fifth edition of 1826, with preface by Rene Thom and postscript by Bernard Bru. In the second part of the book, the reader is provided with an extensive commentary by the translator including valuable histographical and mathematical remarks and various proofs.

Philosophy of Probability and Statistical Modelling
Philosophy of Probability and Statistical Modelling

Author: Mauricio Suárez

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-01-21

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1108983847

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This Element has two main aims. The first one (sections 1-7) is an historically informed review of the philosophy of probability. It describes recent historiography, lays out the distinction between subjective and objective notions, and concludes by applying the historical lessons to the main interpretations of probability. The second aim (sections 8-13) focuses entirely on objective probability, and advances a number of novel theses regarding its role in scientific practice. A distinction is drawn between traditional attempts to interpret chance, and a novel methodological study of its application. A radical form of pluralism is then introduced, advocating a tripartite distinction between propensities, probabilities and frequencies. Finally, a distinction is drawn between two different applications of chance in statistical modelling which, it is argued, vindicates the overall methodological approach. The ensuing conception of objective probability in practice is the 'complex nexus of chance'.