Classical Probability in the Enlightenment (eBook)

Lorraine Daston (Autor)

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2021
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4422-7 (ISBN)

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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 "e;nothing more at bottom than good sense reduced to a calculus,"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.5.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 3 figures
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Wahrscheinlichkeit / Kombinatorik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: abraham de moivre • Actuaries • Adolphe Quetelet • Ambiguity • Amicable Society • Analogy • A priori probability • Archives nationales (France) • argument from design • Aristotle • Ars Conjectandi • associationism • Astronomy • Axiom • Barrow, Isaac • Bayesian probability • Bayes' Theorem • Bielefeld • Binomial expansion • Blaise Pascal • Boyle lectures • British Museum • Calculation • Cartesianism • Certainty • Clark, Samuel • combinatorics • Computation • Concept • conjecture • Consensus • Consideration • consistency • Contracts • Contradiction • credibility • critique • Daniel Bernoulli • Decision Making • Decision-Making • Deparcieux, Antoine • Determination • Determinism • disadvantage • distributions • Emergence • Enlightenment • Equipossibility • Equiprobability • error • estimation • ethics • Expectation • Explanation • Fair coin • fallacy • Fonds • fortune • French Revolution • Gambling • Gambling Act • Geometry • Gerd Gigerenzer • Gerolamo Cardano • Golden mean (philosophy) • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz • Grotius, Hugo • Herodotus • Huygens, Christiaan • Huygens, Ludwig • hypothesis • Idéologues • Illustration • Impossibility • inference • injunction • insurance • interest rates • Inverse Probability • Jesuits • John Stuart Mill • Joseph Glanvill • Justinian • Lalande, Joseph-Jérôme • Latitudinarianism • Legal reform • Luxury • mathematical model • mathematician • Mathematics • Measurement • miracles • Moral certainty • National Endowment for the Humanities • natural laws • Natural Philosophy • Natural Theology • normal curve • Objective Probability • Occam’s Razor • parish records • phenomenon • Philosopher • Philosophy • Physiocrats • Pierre-Simon Laplace • Political Arithmetic • Precedent • Prediction • premise • Presumption (canon law) • Principia Mathematica • Principle • Principle of Indifference • Probabilism • Probability • Probability interpretations • Probability of error • Probability Theory • Providence • Psychology • Pure Mathematics • Quantification (science) • Quantity • Rationalism • Rationality • Reality • reason • Reasonable Person • rebuttal • result • Scientist • self-evidence • Self-Interest • sensibility • skepticism • Social Theory • Statistic • Statistics • stipulation • Theorem • theory • Theory and Practice • treatise • Uncertainty • Understanding • Universal law • Verisimilitude • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4422-3 / 1400844223
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4422-7 / 9781400844227