Projective Probability

Zusatztext Clearly written! concise! stylish ... an interesting and engaging monograph that addresses many worthy issues. Klappentext This book presents a novel theory of probability and judgements of probability: strong coherentist subjectivism. James Logue combines three claims in his exposition of this theory. The first states that probabilities may be treated as the degrees of partial belief of (ideally rational) agents, best-established by the examination of behaviour. Thus, probability is personalist. The second claim contends that only such degrees of belief can be construed as probabilities: on this strongly subjectivist view the notion of objective chance is, if not conceptually impossible, at any rate redundant. The third, coherentist, claim maintains that minimal coherence of probability-beliefs is all that is necessary for those beliefs to be rational; on this view, weak coherence of a set of beliefs is both a necessary and sufficient condition for the rationality of those beliefs. Zusammenfassung This book presents a new theory of probability applicable to general reasoning, science, and the courts. From a strongly subjective starting-point, with probabilities viewed simply as the guarded beliefs one can reasonably hold, the theory shows how such beliefs are legitimately 'projected' outwards as if they existed in the world independent of our judgements.

Product details

• Authors: James Logue, James (Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy Logue, Logue James
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.05.1995
• EAN: 9780198239598
• ISBN: 978-0-19-823959-8
• No. of pages: 188
• Series: Oxford Philosophical Monographs; Oxford Philosophical Monograph; Oxford Philosophical Monographs; Oxford Philosophical Monograph
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Philosophy of Science, Probability & statistics, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Probability and statistics, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge