Nicholas Shackel is Professor of Philosophy, Cardiff University and Distinguished Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford University. His research is mainly on paradoxes and rationality. He has published numerous articles in books and leading journals including Journal of Philosophy, Mind, and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
“This is a very useful resource for graduate students and researchers interested in one of the most challenging puzzles in the theory of probability.” Hykel Hosni, University of Milan, Italy “This is essential reading for anyone seriously interested in Bertrand’s chord paradox or the broader epistemic issue of the status of the principle of indifference (and the maximum entropy principle.” Darrell P. Rowbottom, Lingnan University, Hong Kong