Probability in the Sciences
Probability has become one of the most characteristic con cepts of modern culture, and a 'probabilistic way of thinking' may be said to have penetrated almost every sector of our in tellectual life. However it would be difficult to determine an explicit list of 'positive' featu...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1988, 1988
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1988 |
| Series: | Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1: Logical, Methodological and Philosophical Aspects of Probability
- Probability: A Composite Concept
- Two Faces and three Masks of Probability
- Ambiguous Uses of Probability
- Some Logical Distinctions Exploited by Differing Analyses of Pascalian Probability
- Probability and Confirmation
- Chance, Cause and the State-Space Approach
- World as System Self-synthesized by Quantum Networking
- A Brief Note on the Relationship between Probability, Selective Strategies and Possible Models
- 2: Probability, Statistics and Information
- Critical Replications for Statistical Design
- The Contribution of A.N. Kolmogorov to the Notion of Entropy
- The Probability of Singular Events
- Probability, Randomness and Information
- 3: Probability in the Natural Sciences
- Probability, Organization and Evolution in Biochemistry
- Relativity and Probability, Classical and Quantal
- Probabilistic Ontology and Space-Time: Updating an Historical Debate
- Probability and the Mystery of Quantum Mechanics
- Probability and Determinism in Quantum Theory
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects