In Defence of Objective Bayesianism

ISBN-13: 9780199228003 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 200 str.

Jon Williamson

Opis

Objective Bayesianism is a methodological theory that is currently applied in statistics, philosophy, artificial intelligence, physics and other sciences. This book develops the formal and philosophical foundations of the theory, at a level accessible to a graduate student with some familiarity with mathematical notation.Espeically suitable for graduate students or researchers in philosophy of sicence, foundations of statistics and artificial intelligence.

O autorze

Jon Williamson is Professor of Reasoning, Inference and Scientific Method in the philosophy department at the University of Kent. He works on causality, probability, logic and applications of formal reasoning within science, mathematics and artificial intelligence. Jon currently heads the philosophy department and is a director of the Centre for Reasoning at the University of Kent. He runs the Reasoning Club, a network of research centres, and edits The Reasoner, a monthly gazette on research in this area.