Brian Skyrms

Gebundenes Buch

From Zeno to Arbitrage: Essays on Quantity, Coherence, and Induction

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• New
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 145mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9780199652808
• ISBN-10: 0199652805
• Artikelnr.: 35941913