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A philosophical guide to chance /
"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-indep...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 256 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-253) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139336871 1139336878 9781139012096 1139012096 1280879068 9781280879067 1107229669 9781107229662 1107086787 9781107086784 1139337742 9781139337748 9786613720375 6613720372 1139340190 9781139340199 1139341774 9781139341776 1139338617 9781139338615 |