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Bertrand’s Paradox and the Principle of Indifference

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“This is a very useful resource for graduate students and researchers interested in one of the most challenging puzzles in the theory of probability.”

Hykel Hosni, University of Milan, Italy

“This is essential reading for anyone seriously interested in Bertrand’s chord paradox or the broader epistemic issue of the status of the principle of indifference (and the maximum entropy principle.”

Darrell P. Rowbottom, Lingnan University, Hong Kong

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Events between which we have no epistemic reason to discriminate have equal epistemic probabilities. Bertrand’s chord paradox, however, appears to show this to be false, and thereby poses a general threat to probabilities for continuum sized state spaces.

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Events between which we have no epistemic reason to discriminate have equal epistemic probabilities. Bertrand’s chord paradox, however, appears to show this to be false, and thereby poses a general threat to probabilities for continuum sized state spaces. Articulating the nature of such spaces involves some deep mathematics and that is perhaps why the recent literature on Bertrand’s Paradox has been almost entirely from mathematicians and physicists, who have often deployed elegant mathematics of considerable sophistication. At the same time, the philosophy of probability has been left out. In particular, left out entirely are the philosophical ground of the principle of indifference, the nature of the principle itself, the stringent constraint this places on the mathematical representation of the principle needed for its application to continuum sized event spaces, and what these entail for rigour in developing the paradox itself. This book puts the philosophy and its entailments back in and in so doing casts a new light on the paradox, giving original analyses of the paradox, its possible solutions, the source of the paradox, the philosophical errors we make in attempting to solve it and what the paradox proves for the philosophy of probability. The book finishes with the author’s proposed solution—a solution in the spirit of Bertrand’s, indeed—in which an epistemic principle more general than the principle of indifference offers a principled restriction of the domain of the principle of indifference.

Bertrand's Paradox and the Principle of Indifference will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in the philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, philosophy of science, probability theory and mathematical physics.

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Forlag
Routledge
Innbinding
Innbundet
Språk
Engelsk
Sider
376
ISBN
9781032597935
Utgivelsesår
2024
Format
23 x 15 cm

Om forfatteren

Nicholas Shackel is Professor of Philosophy, Cardiff University and Distinguished Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford University. His research is mainly on paradoxes and rationality. He has published numerous articles in books and leading journals including Journal of Philosophy, Mind, and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

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«

“This is a very useful resource for graduate students and researchers interested in one of the most challenging puzzles in the theory of probability.”

Hykel Hosni, University of Milan, Italy

“This is essential reading for anyone seriously interested in Bertrand’s chord paradox or the broader epistemic issue of the status of the principle of indifference (and the maximum entropy principle.”

Darrell P. Rowbottom, Lingnan University, Hong Kong

»

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