Conditionals Paradox And Probability

Author : Lee Walters,John Hawthorne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191021343

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Conditionals, Paradox, and Probability by Lee Walters,John Hawthorne Pdf

Conditionals, Paradox, and Probability brings together fifteen original essays by experts in philosophy and linguistics. These specially written chapters draw on themes from the work of Dorothy Edgington, the first woman to hold a chair in philosophy at the University of Oxford. The contributors to this volume focus on the key topics to which Edgington has made many important contributions, including conditionals, vagueness, the paradox of knowability, and probability. Their insights will be of interest to philosophers, linguists, and psychologists working in philosophical logic, natural language semantics, and reasoning.

Author : Ellery Eells,Brian Skyrms
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1994-11-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521453593

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Probability and Conditionals by Ellery Eells,Brian Skyrms Pdf

Essays on the state of research investigating the relationship between conditionals and conditional probabilities.

Author : John Leslie Mackie
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198244028

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Truth, Probability and Paradox by John Leslie Mackie Pdf

Classic work by one of the most brilliant figures in post-war analytic philosophy.

Author : Frank Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Conditionals (Logic).
ISBN : 0198750951

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Conditionals by Frank Jackson Pdf

This collection introduces the reader to some of the most interesting current work on conditionals. Particular attention is paid to possible world semantics for conditionals, the role of conditional probability in helping us to understand conditionals, implicature and the material conditional, and subjunctive versus indicative conditionals. Contributors include V.H. Dudman, Dorothy Edgington, Nelson Goodman, H.P. Grice, David Lewis, and Robert Stalnaker.

Author : Stefan Kaufmann,David E. Over,Ghanshyam Sharma
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783031056826

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Conditionals by Stefan Kaufmann,David E. Over,Ghanshyam Sharma Pdf

This edited book examines conditionals from a number of interdisciplinary perspectives, drawing on research from fields as diverse as linguistics, psychology, philosophy and logic. Across 13 chapters, the authors not only investigate and examine various commonly-held perceptions about conditionals, but they also challenge many of the assumptions underpinning current conditionals scholarship, setting an agenda for future research. Based in part on the papers presented at a unique international summer school - Conditionals in Paris - this volume represents the cutting edge in the study of conditionals, and it will be of interest to scholars in fields including linguistics and psychology, semiotics, philosophy and logic, and artificial intelligence.

Author : Ken Manktelow,David Over,Shira Elqayam
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136939099

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The Science of Reason by Ken Manktelow,David Over,Shira Elqayam Pdf

This volume is a state-of-the-art survey of the psychology of reasoning, based around, and in tribute to, one of the field’s most eminent figures: Jonathan St B.T. Evans. In this collection of cutting edge research, Evans’ collaborators and colleagues review a wide range of important and developing areas of inquiry. These include biases in thinking, probabilistic and causal reasoning, people’s use of ‘if’ sentences in arguments, the dual-process theory of thought, and the nature of human rationality. These foundational issues are examined from various angles and finally integrated in a concluding panoramic chapter written by Evans himself. The eighteen chapters, all written by leading international researchers, combine state-of the-art research with investigation into the most fundamental questions surrounding human mental life, such as: What is the architecture of the human mind? Are humans rational, and what is the nature of this rationality? How do we think hypothetically? The Science of Reason offers a unique combination of breadth, depth and integrative vision, making it an indispensable resource for researchers and students of human reason.

Author : Frank Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134707959

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Mind, Method and Conditionals by Frank Jackson Pdf

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : M.M. Rao
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-25
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781420027433

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Conditional Measures and Applications by M.M. Rao Pdf

In response to unanswered difficulties in the generalized case of conditional expectation and to treat the topic in a well-deservedly thorough manner, M.M. Rao gave us the highly successful first edition of Conditional Measures and Applications. Until this groundbreaking work, conditional probability was relegated to scattered journal articles and

Author : Philip Calabrese
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1848902581

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Logic and Conditional Probability by Philip Calabrese Pdf

This monograph develops an algebra of Boolean fractions, (ab) - ordered pairs of propositions or events - "a if b", "event a given event b". In nine chapters, the author shows that these conditional propositions (together with their associated instantiations or models): Provide logical elements that better represent and more faithfully facilitate manipulation of certain and uncertain conditional information Extend the Boole's algebra of 2-valued statements to a 3-valued system that includes "inapplicable statements" - those whose condition may be false in some or all instances (examples, cases, models...) Allow a definition of the probability of an arbitrary Boolean proposition Non-trivially combine Boolean logic with standard conditional probability theory Provide a complete and adequate development of the crucial 4th operation for Boolean logic, namely conditioning, including iterated conditioning Provide an expanded theory of deduction defined in terms of the extended operations on the Boolean fractions Admit a variety of deduction relations, and that the deductively closed sets generated by some initial set of conditionals can be calculated Extend the ordinary function operations of sum, difference, product & quotient to real-valued functions with possibly different or overlapping domains of definition Represent & simplify complex conditional statements in Bayesian expert systems used to calculate maximum information entropy solutions Explicate the logic of quantum measurements by better expressing the changing conditions in quantum mechanics

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : UOM:39015017297493

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Probabilities, Problems, and Paradoxes by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert C. Stalnaker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192538307

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Knowledge and Conditionals by Robert C. Stalnaker Pdf

Robert C. Stalnaker presents a set of essays on the structure of inquiry. In the first part he focuses on the concepts of knowledge, belief, and partial belief, and on the rules and procedures we use - or ought to use - to determine what to believe, and what to claim that we know. In the second part he examines conditional statements and conditional beliefs, their role in epistemology, and their relations to causal and explanatory concepts, such as dispositions, objective chance, relations of dependence, and independence. A central concern of the book is the interaction of different cognitive perspectives - the ways in which the attitudes of rational agents are or should be influenced by critical reflection on their present cognitive situation, on their own cognitive situations at other times, and on the cognitive situations of others with whom they interact. The general picture that is developed is naturalistic, following Hume in rejecting a substantive role for pure reason in the defense of inductive rules, and in giving causal concepts a central role in the description and explanation of our cognitive practices. However, Stalnaker rejects the side of Hume that aims to reduce concepts involving natural necessity to more basic descriptive concepts. Instead, he argues that the development of inductive rules and practices takes place in interaction with the development of concepts for giving a theoretical description of the world.

Author : P.E. Pfeiffer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461263357

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Conditional Independence in Applied Probability by P.E. Pfeiffer Pdf

It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of stochastic independence in both the theoretical development and the practical appli cations of mathematical probability. The concept is grounded in the idea that one event does not "condition" another, in the sense that occurrence of one does not affect the likelihood of the occurrence of the other. This leads to a formulation of the independence condition in terms of a simple "product rule," which is amazingly successful in capturing the essential ideas of independence. However, there are many patterns of "conditioning" encountered in practice which give rise to quasi independence conditions. Explicit and precise incorporation of these into the theory is needed in order to make the most effective use of probability as a model for behavioral and physical systems. We examine two concepts of conditional independence. The first concept is quite simple, utilizing very elementary aspects of probability theory. Only algebraic operations are required to obtain quite important and useful new results, and to clear up many ambiguities and obscurities in the literature.

Author : Igor Douven
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781107111455

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The Epistemology of Indicative Conditionals by Igor Douven Pdf

Addresses central questions concerning conditionals by combining the methods of formal epistemology with those of cognitive psychology.

Author : Gábor J. Székely
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Mathematical statistics
ISBN : UOM:39015038937226

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Paradoxes in Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics by Gábor J. Székely Pdf

Author : William Eckhardt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9789400751392

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Paradoxes in Probability Theory by William Eckhardt Pdf

Paradoxes provide a vehicle for exposing misinterpretations and misapplications of accepted principles. This book discusses seven paradoxes surrounding probability theory. Some remain the focus of controversy; others have allegedly been solved, however the accepted solutions are demonstrably incorrect. Each paradox is shown to rest on one or more fallacies. Instead of the esoteric, idiosyncratic, and untested methods that have been brought to bear on these problems, the book invokes uncontroversial probability principles, acceptable both to frequentists and subjectivists. The philosophical disputation inspired by these paradoxes is shown to be misguided and unnecessary; for instance, startling claims concerning human destiny and the nature of reality are directly related to fallacious reasoning in a betting paradox, and a problem analyzed in philosophy journals is resolved by means of a computer program.​