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  2. From: jwales@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (jimmy donal wales)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.math
  4. Subject: Re: Philosophical Foundations of Probability?
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  6. Date: 14 Oct 92 20:52:08 GMT
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  14. MICHAEL K ROGERS writes:
  15. >jimmy donal wales (jwales@silver.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote:
  16. >: I'm looking for pointers to books or review articles on modern
  17. >: views of the philosophical foundations of probability theory.
  18. >: 
  19. >: --Jimbo
  20. >
  21. >The closest thing I know of are two books by Ian Hacking,
  22. >"The Emergence of Probability" and "The Taming of Chance."
  23.  
  24. O.k., I've got those, that is a good beginning.
  25.  
  26. Anything else?  Anyone?
  27.  
  28. Is there a journal which would be likely to contain good
  29. philosophical foundations of math/probability/statistics 
  30. stuff?
  31.  
  32. I'm trying to decide if I'm a Bayesian, see.  *grin*
  33.  
  34. --Jimbo
  35.