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, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Classical Probability in the Enlightenment / Lorraine Daston. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2022] ©1988 1 online resource (451 p.) : 3 figures text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Probabilities History 19th century. Science History 19th century. SCIENCE / History. bisacsh Amicable Society. Aristotle. Barrow, Isaac. Binomial expansion. Boyle lectures. British Museum. Cartesianism. Clark, Samuel. Deparcieux, Antoine. Enlightenment. French Revolution. Gambling Act. Grotius, Hugo. Herodotus. Huygens, Christiaan. Huygens, Ludwig. Jesuits. Justinian. Lalande, Joseph-Jérôme. Occam’s razor. actuaries. argument from design. associationism. astronomy. calculation. combinatorics. consensus. contracts. decision making. distributions. expectation. fortune. gambling. geometry. idéologues. insurance. interest rates. latitudinarianism. legal reform. luxury. mathematical model. miracles. natural laws. natural theology. normal curve. parish records. physiocrats. political arithmetic. probabilism. providence. pure mathematics. rationalism. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Gap Years 9783110784237 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400844227?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400844227 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400844227/original |
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