De Finetti, Countable Additivity, Consistency and Coherence

DOI10.1093/BJPS/AXM042MaRDI QIDQ3507684zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Colin Howson

Publication date 20 June 2008

Published in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axm042

zbMATH Keywords

consistency constraintscountable additivityDutch Book argument

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05)

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• Addendum to ``Countable algebra and set existence axioms
• Coherence without additivity.
• The qualitative paradox of non-conglomerability
• Probability logic of finitely additive beliefs
• On de Finetti's instrumentalist philosophy of probability
• The consistency argument for ranking functions
• Foundations of probability
• Modelling uncertain inference
• Countable Additivity and Subjective Probability
• Countable Additivity and the de Finetti Lottery
• Finite additivity, another lottery paradox and conditionalisation
• Coherence of countably many bets
• On probabilities in biology and physics
• Objectifying subjective probabilities: Dutch book arguments for principles of direct inference
• The origins of de Finetti's critique of countable additivity
• The strength of de Finetti's coherence theorem
• A logical characterization of coherence for imprecise probabilities
• E.T. Jaynes's solution to the problem of countable additivity
• Conglomerability, disintegrability and the comparative principle
• A structural justification of probabilism: from partition invariance to subjective probability
• Hypothetical frequencies as approximations

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