The Oxford Handbook of Propbability and Philosophy

includes index and biblioraphy

1. History Pre-history of Probability ...........33 Probability in 17th -and 18th Century continental Europe from the perspective of Jacob bernoulli`s Art of conjecturing .................50 Probability and its application in Britain during the 17th and 18th Centuries..........69 A brief history of Probability theory from 1810 to 1940 ..............87 The origins of modern statistics ...............112 The origins of probabilistic epistemology .......130 2. Formalism .............155 3. Alternatives to standard probability theory ...............203 4. Interpretations and interpretive issues ...............315 5. Probabilistic judgment and its applications ................477 6. Applications of Probability : Science ................545 7. Applications of Probability: Philosophy ................625