Probability Theory Philosophy, Recent History and Relations to Science [Hardcover]

Preface. Contributing Authors. Introduction; V.F. Hendricks, et al. Original Abstracts. Part 1: The Philosophy and Recent History of Probability Theory and Statistics. Probability and Statistics: Some Thoughts at the Turn of the Millennium; N.H. Bingham. Kolmogorov's Complexity Conception of Probability; V. Vovk. Emile Borel's View of Probability Theory; E. Knobloch. The Reception of John Venn's Philosophy of Probability; B.E. Kilin?. Part 2: Contemporary Issues in Probability Theory and Statistics. On the Distribution of Probability Functions in the Natural World; J.B. Paris. Nature's Possibilities and Expectations; G. Shafer. Remarks on the Theory of Conditional Probability: Some Issues of Finite versus Countable Additivity; T. Seidenfeld. Index.