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From Zeno to Arbitrage Brian Skyrms (Stanford University)

From Zeno to Arbitrage By Brian Skyrms (Stanford University)

From Zeno to Arbitrage by Brian Skyrms (Stanford University)


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Brian Skyrms presents a set of influential essays which deploy formal methods to address epistemological and metaphysical questions. The first part of the book focuses on quantity; the second on degrees of belief, belief revision, and coherence; the third on aspects of inductive reasoning.

From Zeno to Arbitrage Summary

From Zeno to Arbitrage: Essays on Quantity, Coherence, and Induction by Brian Skyrms (Stanford University)

Brian Skyrms presents a set of influential essays on the nature of quantity, probability, coherence, and induction. The first part explores the nature of quantity and includes essays on tractarian nominalism, combinatorial possibility, and coherence. Part Two proceeds to examine coherent updating of degrees of belief in various learning situations. Finally, in Part Three, Skyrms develops an account of aspects of inductive reasoning, which proceeds from specific problems to general considerations. These essays span the breadth of Skyrms's illustrious career and will be essential reading for scholars and advanced students in philosophy of science and formal epistemology.

From Zeno to Arbitrage Reviews

this book is a convenient source for a lot of his important work on the application of mathematics to philosophical questions about induction and epistemology, as well as some intriguing ideas for metaphysics . . . I hope that it helps make more philosophers aware of the important work Brian Skyrms has been doing for several decades. This work is well worth studying for anyone dealing with these issues * Kenny Easwaran, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *

About Brian Skyrms (Stanford University)

Brian Skyrms is Distinguished Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science and Economics at the University of California, Irvine. His interests cover a range of topics, including the evolution of conventions, the social contract, inductive logic, decision theory, rational deliberation, the metaphysics of logical atomism, causality, and truth. He is the author of Signals: Evolution, Learning, and Information (OUP, 2010).

Table of Contents

I. ZENO AND THE METAPHYSICS OF QUANTITY; II. COHERENT DEGREES OF BELIEF; III. INDUCTION

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NLS9780199652815
9780199652815
0199652813
From Zeno to Arbitrage: Essays on Quantity, Coherence, and Induction by Brian Skyrms (Stanford University)
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Paperback
Oxford University Press
2012-11-29
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