Author: Brian Skyrms
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Keywords: logic, inductive, introduction, chance, choice
Number of Pages: 174
Published: 1999-11-04
List price: $76.95
ISBN-10: 0534557376
ISBN-13: 9780534557379

This definitive survey of the hottest issues in inductive logic sets the stage for further classroom discussion.

Author: Brian Skyrms
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: deliberation, rational, dynamics
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1990-06-29
List price: $74.00
ISBN-10: 067421885X
ISBN-13: 9780674218857

Brian Skyrms constructs a theory of "dynamic deliberation" and uses it to investigate rational decisionmaking in cases of strategic interaction. This illuminating book will be of great interest to all those in many disciplines who use decision theory and game theory to study human behavior and thought. Skyrms begins by discussing the Bayesian theory of individual rational decision and the classical theory of games, which at first glance seem antithetical in the criteria used for determining action. In his effort to show how methods for dealing with information feedback can be productively

Author: Brian Skyrms
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: structure, social, evolution, hunt, stag
Number of Pages: 166
Published: 2003-12-15
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 0521533929
ISBN-13: 9780521533928

Brian Skyrms’ study of ideas of cooperation and collective action explores the implications of a prototypical story found in Rousseau’s A Discourse on Inequality. It is therein that Rousseau contrasts the pay-off of hunting hare (where the risk of non-cooperation is small and the reward equally small) against the pay-off of hunting the stag (where maximum cooperation is required but the reward is much greater.) Thus, rational agents are pulled in one direction by considerations of risk and in another by considerations of mutual benefit. Written with Skyrms’ characteristic c

Authors:Ellery Eells, Brian Skyrms,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: probability, decision, studies, induction, theory, cambridge, rational, conditionals, belief, revision
Number of Pages: 217
Published: 1994-11-25
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0521453593
ISBN-13: 9780521453592

This is a collection of essays on the relation between probabilities--especially conditional probabilities--and conditionals. It provides new negative results that sharply limit the ways conditionals can be related to conditional probabilities. There are also positive ideas and results that will open up new areas of research. The collection is intended to honor Ernest W. Adams, whose seminal work is largely responsible for creating this area of inquiry. As well as describing, evaluating, and applying Adams’s work, the contributions extend his ideas in directions he may not have antici

Authors:B. Skyrms, W.L. Harper,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: series, philosophy, science, ontario, western, chance, credence, causation
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 1988-07-31
List price: $212.00
ISBN-10: 9027726337
ISBN-13: 9789027726339

Authors:Edward V. Schneier, John Brian Murtaugh, Brian Murta
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Keywords: states, tale, politics, york, new
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2001-02
List price: $82.95
ISBN-10: 0765600641
ISBN-13: 9780765600646

A lively introduction to New York state and local politics by a political scientist and a former State Assembly member, who infuse their discussion of institutions and processes with the drama and significance of real power politics. Most New Yorkers have very little knowledge of how influence is wielded in Albany; here is a chance to look behind those closed doors. The book covers constitutional issues; historical, economic, social, and demographic characteristics of New York; the functioning of executive, legislative, and judicial institutions; urban, local, and special district governments;

Authors:Brian M. Edwards, Leonard A. Giuliano, Brian R. Wrig
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Keywords: cisco, systems, solutions, networks, juniper, multicast, routing, practical, interdomain
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2002-05-04
List price: $49.99
ISBN-10: 0201746123
ISBN-13: 9780201746129

IP multicast is rapidly coming of age: its principles are solid, its protocols are being finalized, and it is increasingly being implemented in real-world ISP and enterprise networks. Now, a team of Juniper Networks IP multicast experts have written the most authoritative and up-to-date guide to IP multicast implementation. This book covers everything network professionals must know about IP multicast protocols, applications, network design and integration, deployment, configuration, and management. The authors, who support many of the world’s largest networks, also offer never-before-pu