Classical Probability in the Enlightenment, New Edition

by Lorraine Daston

Book Overview

An award-winning history of the Enlightenment quest to devise a mathematical model of rationality

What did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason? Enlightenment mathematicians such as Blaise Pascal, Jakob Bernoulli, and Pierre Simon Laplace sought to answer this question, laboring over a theory of rational decision, action, and belief under conditions of uncertainty. Lorraine Daston brings to life their debates and philosophical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691248508
• ISBN13: 9780691248509
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"