Are there degrees of belief?
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Are there degrees of belief?
zbMATH Open document ID: 1047.03005
DOI: 10.1016/S1570-8683(03)00010-7
published in: Journal of Applied Logic
publication date: 2004-03-14T00:00:00Z
review text: The author presents new arguments shedding some light on the controversy between John Maynard Keynes and Frank Ramsey regarding the logical treatment of probability, from the first half of the twentieth century. The principle of maximizing the expected utility is considered as one of the main steps of this rich and complex process.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03A05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03-03
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03B48
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 60A05
zbMATH DE Number: 2055627
zbMATH Keywords: Ramsey
zbMATH Keywords: Keynes
zbMATH Keywords: probability
zbMATH Keywords: degree of belief
zbMATH Keywords: partial entailment
zbMATH Keywords: partial belief
zbMATH Keywords: Bayesianism
zbMATH Keywords: Dutch book
author: Henry E. jun. Kyburg
reviewed by: Branislav Boričić
MaRDI profile type: Publication
cites work: Q5799632
cites work: Reasoning about knowledge and probability
cites work: Logic and Probability
cites work: Q5732970
cites work: Intuitive probabilities and sequences
cites work: Uncertain Inference
full work available at URL: s1570-8683(03)00010-7
OpenAlex ID: W2009950540
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2055627