Classical Probability in the Enlightenment / / Lorraine Daston.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Daston, Lorraine,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (451 p.) :; 3 figures
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400844227; 9783110442496; 9783110784237
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400844227?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Lorraine Daston.

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.