Philosophical Lectures on Probability

• Main Authors: Finetti, Bruno de (Author), Galavotti, Maria Carla (Author), Hosni, Hykel (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mura, Alberto (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Series: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 340
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Epistemology.; Philosophy and science.; Mathematics.; History.; Probabilities.; Statistics.; Social sciences.; Philosophy of Science.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Statistics, general.; Social Sciences, general.

Philosophical Lectures on Probability contains the transcription of a series of lectures held by Bruno de Finetti (one of the fathers of subjective Bayesianism) and collected by the editor Alberto Mura at the Institute for Advanced Mathematics in Rome in 1979. The book offers a live in-context outlo...

Table of Contents:

• Introductory Lecture
• Decisions and Proper Scoring Rules
• Geometric Representation of Brier’s Rule
• Bayes’ Theorem
• Physical Probability and Complexity
• Stochastic Independence and Random Sequences
• Superstition and Frequentism
• Exchangeability
• Distributions
• The Concept of Mean
• Induction and Sample Randomization
• Complete Additivity and Zero Probabilities
• The Definitions of Probability
• The Gambler’s Fallacy
• “Facts” and “Events”
• “Facts” and “Events”: An Example
• Prevision, Random Quantities, and Trievents
• Désir André’s Argument
• Characteristic Functions.