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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...
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| 245 | 1 | 2 | |a A philosophical guide to chance / |c Toby Handfield, Monash University. |
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| 520 | |a "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"-- |c Provided by publisher | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-253) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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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