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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Handfield, Toby
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Chance.
Probabilities.
Probability
Hasard.
Probabilités.
probability.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
PHILOSOPHY > Free Will & Determinism.
Chance
Probabilities
Australian
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The concept of chance
  • 2. The classical picture
  • 3. Ways the world might be
  • 4. Possibilities of thought
  • 5. Chance in phase space
  • 6. Possibilist theories of chance
  • 7. Actualist theories of chance
  • 8. Anti-realist theories of chance
  • 9. Chance in quantum physics
  • 10. Chance in branching worlds
  • 11. Time and evidence
  • 12. Debunking chance.

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