UPC: 9780190907419 | Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science: Chance in the World: A Humean Guide to Objective Chance (Hardcover)
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Probability has fascinated philosophers scientists and mathematicians for hundreds of years. Although the mathematics of probability is for most applications clear and uncontroversial the interpretation of probability statements continues to be fraught with controversy and confusion. What does it mean to say that the probability of some event X occurring is 31%? In the 20th century a consensus emerged that there are at least two legitimate kinds of probability and correspondingly at least two kinds of possible answers to this question of meaning. Subjective probability also called credence or degree of belief is a numerical measure of the confidence of some person or some ideal rational agent. Objective probability or chance is a fact about how things are in the world. It is this second type of probability with which Carl Hoefer is concerned in this volume specifically how we can understand the meaning of statements about objective probability. He aims to settle the question of what objective chances are once and for all with an account that can meet the demands of philosophers and scientists alike. For Hoefer chances are constituted by patterns that can be discerned in the events that happen in our world. These patterns are ideally appropriate guides to what credences limited rational agents such as ourselves should have in situations of imperfect knowledge. By showing this Hoefer bridges the gap between subjective probability and chance. In a field where few scholars have given adequate treatment to interpreting statements of chance Hoefer develops a philosophically rich theory which draws on the disciplines of metaphysics ontology and philosophy of science.
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