Book review: Philosophy of Probability. Edited by Jacques-Paul Dubucs (Kluwer Academic Publishers Group 1993)

  • Authors:
  • Richard Ferrante

  • Affiliations:
  • Gensym Corporation 125 Cambridge Park Dr., Cambridge, MA 02140 Emaih ferrante @ world.std or rdf @ gensym.com

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGART Bulletin
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

The first three chapters of this book flow together beautifully. The reader progresses from Howson's article "Personalistic Bayesianism" to Sahlin's "On Higher Order Beliefs" to Gardenfors "On the Logic of Relevance." All address the same issues succinctly in similar terms. The probabilistic reasoning case discussed by Sahlin on page 14 is directly comparable to Howson's discussion on page 7. This allows the reader to compare them and try to determine the differences between the two approaches.