On Science, Inference, Information and Decision-Making Selected Essays in the Philosophy of Science
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1998, 1998
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1998 |
| 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:
- I. On Science
- 1. Some remarks on the philosophy of science
- 2. Information and decision-making as tools of philosophy of science
- 3. Method and creativity in science
- 4. Sociology and models of rational behaviour
- 5. Mathematical models and social facts
- 6. Science as a search for information
- II. On Inference
- 7. Inference or behaviour?
- 8. A note on confirmation of statistical hypotheses
- 9. On some basic patterns of statistical inference
- 10. A method of deciding between N statistical hypotheses
- 11. A pragmatic justification of rules of statistical inference
- 12. On sequential inference
- 13. Interpretations of the maximum likelihood principle
- III. On Information and Decision Making
- 14. Some remarks concerning the criterion of rational decision-making
- 15. The concept of distribution of goods
- 16. The value of perfect information
- 17. Questions and their pragmatic value
- 18. Two concepts of information
- 19. Types of information and their role in the methodology of science
- 20. Information in decision-making. Some logical aspects
- 21. Decision-making and future research. Some theoretical problems
- 22. On formal aspects of distributive justice
- 23. Philosophy and decision-making
- 24. The concept of unreliable information
- 25. On defining information
- 26. Rationality as a value
- Index of Names