The Emergence of Probability

The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference

Cover of the first edition
Author Ian Hacking
Language English
Subject History of probability
Published 1975
Media type Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
ISBN 978-0521685573

The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference is a 1975 book by philosopher Ian Hacking.

Summary

Hacking provides an account of an important period in the history of probability.[1] He shows that the modern argument for preferring facts to testimony in science assumes probabilistic thinking.[2]

Reception

Hacking's work has been described as ground-breaking.[1]

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Bibliography

Books
  • Macintosh, Jack (2005). Honderich, Ted, ed. The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-926479-1. 
  • Welsh, Alexander (1994). Freud's Wishful Dream Book. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-03718-3. 


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