Title | Belief and Probability [electronic resource] / edited by John M. Vickers |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1976 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1158-7 |
Descript | VIII, 208 p. online resource |
0. Introduction -- 0.1. Logic and Probability -- 0.2. Judgment -- 0.3. Belief and Action -- 0.4. Belief, Judgment and Logic -- 0.5. A Relative View of Belief and Judgment -- I. The Natures of Judgment and Belief -- 1.1. Remarks on the Theory of Judgment -- 1.2. Mentalistic Views of Belief -- 1.3. Mentalistic Views; Distinct Acts of the Mind are Possible -- 1.4. Behavioristic Views. Pragmatism -- 1.5. Other Behavioristic Views -- Notes -- II. Partial Belief -- II.1. Mentalistic Partial Belief -- II.2. The Relation of Belief and Desire -- II.3. Difficulties with this Account -- Notes -- III. Logic And Probability -- III.1. Logic -- III.2. The Probability of Sentences -- III.3. Transparency -- Notes -- IV. Coherence and the Sum Condition -- IV.1. The Concept of Coherence -- IV.2. The Sum Condition Entails the Laws of Probability -- IV.3. Probability Entails the Sum Condition -- Notes -- V. Probability and Infinity -- V.1. Subjectivism and Infinity -- V.2. Extensions of Probabilities -- V.3. Independence -- V.4. Conditional Probability -- V.5. Transparency and Monotonicity -- V.6. Systems with Finite Bases; Indifference -- V.7. Probability and Quantifiers -- Notes -- VI. Infinity and the Sum Condition -- VI.1. Generalization of the Sum Condition -- VI.2. Probability Entails the Generalized Sum Conditions -- VI.3. The Generalized Sum Condition Entails the Laws of Probability -- Appendix on Set Theory and Boolean Algebras -- Appendix on Measure Theory -- Index of Names and Subjects