Philosophy and Foundations of Probability

Harvard FAS

This course is officially cross-listed with the Department of Philosophy.An introduction to the history of probability and outstanding questions in the philosophy of probability. Topics will include objective chance, subjective credence, the measure-theoretic treatment of probability, Bayesian epistemology, decision theory, and the relationship between probability and causation. Possible additional topics: information and entropy, de Finetti's theorem, random variables, imprecise…