Probability Theory: Philosophy, Recent History and Relations to Science

Preface. Contributing Authors. Introduction V.F. Hendricks, et al. Original Abstracts. Part 1: The Philosophy and Recent History of Probability Theory and Statistics. Probability and Statistics: Some Thoughts at the Turn of the Millennium N.H. Bingham. Kolmogorov's Complexity Conception of Probability V. Vovk. Emile Borel's View of Probability Theory E. Knobloch. The Reception of John Venn's Philosophy of Probability B.E. Kilinc. Part 2: Contemporary Issues in Probability Theory and Statistics. On the Distribution of Probability Functions in the Natural World J.B. Paris. Nature's Possibilities and Expectations G. Shafer. Remarks on the Theory of Conditional Probability: Some Issues of Finite versus Countable Additivity T. Seidenfeld. Index.