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==Further reading== * {{cite book | last = Cohen | first = L |author-link= Laurence Jonathan Cohen | title = An introduction to the philosophy of induction and probability | url = https://archive.org/details/introductiontoph0000cohe | url-access = registration | publisher = Clarendon Press Oxford University Press | location = Oxford New York | year = 1989 | isbn = 978-0198750789 }} * {{cite book | last = Eagle | first = Antony|title = Philosophy of probability : contemporary readings | publisher = Routledge | location = Abingdon, Oxon New York | year = 2011 | isbn = 978-0415483872 }} * {{cite book | last = Gillies | first = Donald |author-link= Donald A. Gillies | title = Philosophical theories of probability | publisher = Routledge | location = London New York | year = 2000 | isbn = 978-0415182768 }} A comprehensive monograph covering the four principal current interpretations: logical, subjective, frequency, propensity. Also proposes a novel intersubective interpretation. * {{cite book | last = Hacking | first = Ian |author-link= Ian Hacking | title = The emergence of probability : a philosophical study of early ideas about probability, induction and statistical inference | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge New York | year = 2006 | isbn = 978-0521685573 }} * [[Paul Humphreys (philosopher)|Paul Humphreys]], ed. (1994) ''[[Patrick Suppes]]: Scientific Philosopher'', Synthese Library, Springer-Verlag. ** Vol. 1: ''Probability and Probabilistic Causality''. ** Vol. 2: ''Philosophy of Physics, Theory Structure and Measurement, and Action Theory''. *Jackson, Frank, and Robert Pargetter (1982) "Physical Probability as a Propensity," ''NoΓ»s'' 16(4): 567β583. * {{cite book | last = Khrennikov | first = Andrei | title = Interpretations of probability | publisher = Walter de Gruyter | location = Berlin New York | year = 2009 | edition = 2nd | isbn = 978-3110207484 }} Covers mostly non-Kolmogorov probability models, particularly with respect to [[quantum physics]]. * {{cite book | last = Lewis | first = David |author-link= David Kellogg Lewis | title = Philosophical papers | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = New York | year = 1983 | isbn = 978-0195036466 }} * {{cite book | last = Plato | first = Jan von | title = Creating modern probability : its mathematics, physics, and philosophy in historical perspective | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge England New York | year = 1994 | isbn = 978-0521597357 }} * {{cite book | last = Rowbottom | first = Darrell | title = Probability | publisher = Polity | location = Cambridge | year = 2015 | isbn = 978-0745652573 }} A highly accessible introduction to the interpretation of probability. Covers all the main interpretations, and proposes a novel group level (or 'intersubjective') interpretation. Also covers fallacies and applications of interpretations in the social and natural sciences. * {{cite book | last = Skyrms | first = Brian |author-link= Brian Skyrms | title = Choice and chance : an introduction to inductive logic | publisher = Wadsworth/Thomson Learning | location = Australia Belmont, CA | year = 2000 | isbn = 978-0534557379 }}
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