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- Presents an overview of seven paradoxes in probability theory
- Contains chapters on the Betting Crowd and the Two Envelope probability paradox?
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy (BRIEFSPHILOSOPH)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Anthropic Fallacies
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Front Matter
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Dilemmas of Cooperation
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Front Matter
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Mystifying Envelopes
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- Anthropic Fallacies
- Betting Crowd Probability Theory
- Doomsday Argument probability theory
- Esoteric Methods
- Idiosyncratic Methods
- Misguided paradoxes
- Newcomb's Problem probability theory
- Newcomb's problem
- Open box game probability theory
- Paradoxes Probability theory
- Paradoxes in Probability Theory
- Prisoner's dilemma
- Simulation Argument probability theory
- Two envelopes probability theory
- hadron collider card experiment probability theory
Authors and Affiliations
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Eckhardt Trading Company, Chicago, USA
William Eckhardt
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Paradoxes in Probability Theory
Authors: William Eckhardt
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5140-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5139-2Published: 27 September 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5140-8Published: 26 September 2012
Series ISSN: 2211-4548
Series E-ISSN: 2211-4556
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 79
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Statistical Theory and Methods, Philosophy of Science, Logic, Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes