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Classical Probability in the Enlightenment / Lorraine Daston.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1988Description: 1 online resource (451 p.) : 3 figuresContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781400844227
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 519.209034 19
LOC classification:
  • QA273.A4
  • QA273.A4
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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 be easily grasped by nonmathematicians, Lorraine Daston demonstrates how this view profoundly shaped the internal development of probability theory and defined its applications.
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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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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 be easily grasped by nonmathematicians, Lorraine Daston demonstrates how this view profoundly shaped the internal development of probability theory and defined its applications.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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