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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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Table des matières:
- 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.