Classical Probability in the Enlightenment, New Edition

An award-winning history of the Enlightenment quest to devise a mathematical model of rationality What did it...
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Author: Lorraine Daston
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Classical Probability in the Enlightenment, New Edition by Daston, Lorraine

Classical Probability in the Enlightenment, New Edition

$105.70

Classical Probability in the Enlightenment, New Edition

$105.70
Author: Lorraine Daston
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.

Author: Lorraine Daston
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 08/08/2023
Pages: 456
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.13h x 6.06w x 1.18d
ISBN: 9780691248509

About the Author
Lorraine Daston is director emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin, visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and a permanent fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study. Her books include Rules: A Short History of What We Live By (Princeton).

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