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Author : Toby Handfield
Release : 2012-04-05
Genre : Mathematics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 78X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Philosophical Guide to Chance by : Toby Handfield
Download or read book A Philosophical Guide to Chance written by Toby Handfield. This book was released on 2012-04-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the philosophy of chance which challenges realist accounts of chance.
Author : Toby Handfield
Release : 2012
Genre : Chance
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 776/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Philosophical Guide to Chance by : Toby Handfield
Download or read book A Philosophical Guide to Chance written by Toby Handfield. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is a commonplace that scientific inquiry makes extensive use of probabilities, many of which seem to be objective chances, describing features of reality that are independent of our minds. Such chances appear to have a number of paradoxical or puzzling features: they appear to be mind-independent facts, but they are intimately connected with rational psychology; they display a temporal asymmetry, but they are supposed to be grounded in physical laws that are time-symmetric; and chances are used to explain and predict frequencies of events, although they cannot be reduced to those frequencies. This book offers an accessible and non-technical introduction to these and other puzzles. Toby Handfield engages with traditional metaphysics and philosophy of science, drawing upon recent work in the foundations of quantum mechanics and thermodynamics to provide a novel account of objective probability that is empirically informed without requiring specialist scientific knowledge"--
Author : Henry Ely Kyburg
Release : 2003
Genre : Mathematics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 137/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Probability is the Very Guide of Life by : Henry Ely Kyburg
Download or read book Probability is the Very Guide of Life written by Henry Ely Kyburg. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of philosophical essays looks at various technical problems in the use of probability theory for guidance in practical decisions. This text is intended for those who already have a basic grounding in philosophy, logic and probabilty theory.
Author : Carl Hoefer
Release : 2019-08-13
Genre : Mathematics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 436/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Chance in the World by : Carl Hoefer
Download or read book Chance in the World written by Carl Hoefer. This book was released on 2019-08-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probability has fascinated philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians for hundreds of years. Although the mathematics of probability is, for most applications, clear and uncontroversial, the interpretation of probability statements continues to be fraught with controversy and confusion. What does it mean to say that the probability of some event X occurring is 31%? In the 20th century a consensus emerged that there are at least two legitimate kinds of probability, and correspondingly at least two kinds of possible answers to this question of meaning. Subjective probability, also called 'credence' or 'degree of belief' is a numerical measure of the confidence of some person or some ideal rational agent. Objective probability, or chance, is a fact about how things are in the world. It is this second type of probability with which Carl Hoefer is concerned in this volume, specifically how we can understand the meaning of statements about objective probability. He aims to settle the question of what objective chances are, once and for all, with an account that can meet the demands of philosophers and scientists alike. For Hoefer, chances are constituted by patterns that can be discerned in the events that happen in our world. These patterns are ideally appropriate guides to what credences limited rational agents, such as ourselves, should have in situations of imperfect knowledge. By showing this, Hoefer bridges the gap between subjective probability and chance. In a field where few scholars have given adequate treatment to interpreting statements of chance, Hoefer develops a philosophically rich theory which draws on the disciplines of metaphysics, ontology, and philosophy of science.
Author : Lawrence Sklar
Release : 1993
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 815/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Physics and Chance by : Lawrence Sklar
Download or read book Physics and Chance written by Lawrence Sklar. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawrence Sklar offers a comprehensive, non-technical introduction to statistical mechanics and attempts to understand its foundational elements.
