Classical Probability in the Enlightenment /

Classical Probability in the Enlightenment / / 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...

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Daston, Lorraine,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t CONTENTS --   |t PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --   |t INTRODUCTION --   |t CHAPTER ONE. The Prehistory of the Classical Interpretation of Probability: Expectation and Evidence --   |t CHAPTER TWO. Expectation and the Reasonable Man --   |t CHAPTER THREE. The Theory and Practice of Risk --   |t CHAPTER FOUR. Associationism. and the Meaning of Probability --   |t CHAPTER FIVE. The Probability of Causes --   |t CHAPTER SIX. Moralizing Mathematics --   |t EPILOGUE. The Decline of the Classical Theory --   |t BIBLIOGRAPHY --   |t INDEX 
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