Philosophy and probability / Timothy Childers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-192) and index.

Probabilities and relative frequencies : Introduction ; Von Mise's relative frequency interpretation ; Kolmogorov and relative frequencies ; Finite frequency interpretations -- Propensities and other physical probabilities : Elements of a propensity interpretation ; Problems with propensity interpretation -- Subjective probabilities : Introduction ; Dutch Book arguments ; The application of subjective probabilities ; Problems with the Dutch Book arguments ; Probability from likelihood ; Probabilities from preferences ; Other arguments equating degrees of belief and probability ; Is Bayesianism too subjective? ; Is Bayesianism too flexible? Or not flexible enough? -- Subjective and objective probabilities : The principle of direct inference ; Betting on frequencies ; The principal principle ; Exchangeability -- The classical and logical interpretations : The origins of probability: the classical theory ; Problems with the principle of indifference ; Keyne's logical interpretation ; Carnap -- The maximum entropy principle : Bits and information ; The principle of maximum entropy ; Maximum entropy and the wine-water paradox ; Language dependence ; Justifying the maximum entropy principle as a logical constraint -- Appendices : Some basics -- The axioms -- Measures, probability measures -- Random variables -- Combinatorics -- Laws of large numbers -- Topics in subjective probability -- The Duhem-Quine problem, language, metaphysics.