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'While written as an introductory text, it is full of philosophical wisdom. Moreover, this is wisdom that most students of philosophy need but find very hard to acquire. Hacking explains all the basic ideas of probability theory, the philosophical puzzles they raise, the standard lines of response, their strengths and weaknesses. He writes with the authority of someone who has helped from the debates and understands everything properly, but at the same time he gives a fair hearing to all positions worth taking seriously. At some point in the career of most philosophy students, graduates and undergraduates alike, they read stuff, which uses probabilistic ideas and turn to their teachers for guidance. I can imagine that the teachers' automatic response for some decades to come will be to send these students to Hacking.' David Papineau, King's College, London

'Hacking's textbook is likely to become the standard for inductive logic courses. He writes simply, in a lively style, without oversimplification ... Lively and original examples drawn from everyday life create the appropriate context to prepare students to think critically about the barrage of statistical arguments that confront us on a daily basis ... Hacking's textbook sheds much needed light on the mystique of statistical reasoning.' Katherine van Uum, Grinnell College, Iowa

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The key features of the book are a lively and vigorous prose style; lucid and systematic organisation and presentation of the ideas; many practical applications; a rich supply of exercises drawing on examples from such fields as psychology, ecology, economics, bioethics, engineering, and political science; numerous brief historical accounts of how fundamental ideas of probability and induction developed; a full bibliography of further reading.

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9780521775014: An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic

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ISBN 10:  0521775019 ISBN 13:  9780521775014
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2002
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