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- From: cxm7@po.CWRU.Edu (Colin Mclarty)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Philosophical Foundations of Probability?
- Date: 15 Oct 1992 17:09:03 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, jwales@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (jimmy donal wales) says:
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- >MICHAEL K ROGERS writes:
- >>jimmy donal wales (jwales@silver.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote:
- >> for pointers to books or review articles on modern
- >>: views of the philosophical foundations of probability theory.
- >>:
- >>: --Jimbo
- >>
- >>The closest thing I know of are two books by Ian Hacking,
- >>"The Emergence of Probability" and "The Taming of Chance."
- >
- >O.k., I've got those, that is a good beginning.
- >
- I really liked Gigerenzer et al. (six coauthors) _The Empire
- of Chance_. This is a collaborative philosophical history whose
- coauthors spent years working together--yet it is quite readable.
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- It includes an entertaining review of cognitivist efforts
- to tell whether people are good Bayesian thinkers--with the
- cognitivists all evaluating their data by Neyman-Pearson methods,
- unaware that this is itelf an alternative to Bayesianism. That
- chapter actually concludes that no statistical method should
- stand as the one model of rational evaluation of evidence.
-
- Colin McLarty
-