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Classical Probability in the Enlightenment, New Edition

By Lorraine Daston

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9780691248516
DOI
10.1515/9780691248516
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
147 MB (153961300 bytes)
Pages
456\456
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-12-08 16:51:21

Description

An award-winning history of the Enlightenment quest to devise a mathematical model of rationality What did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason? Enlightenment mathematicians such as Blaise Pascal, Jakob Bernoulli, and Pierre Simon Laplace sought to answer this question, laboring over a theory of rational decision, action, and belief under conditions of uncertainty. Lorraine Daston brings to life their debates and philosophical arguments, charting the development and application of probability theory by some of the greatest thinkers of the age. Now with an incisive new preface, Classical Probability in the Enlightenment traces the emergence of new kind of mathematics designed to turn good sense into a reasonable calculus.

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