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A Philosophical Guide to Chance

- Physical Probability
Af: Toby Handfield Engelsk Hardback

A Philosophical Guide to Chance

- Physical Probability
Af: Toby Handfield Engelsk Hardback
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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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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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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 264
ISBN-13: 9781107013780
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 110701378X
Udg. Dato: 5 apr 2012
Længde: 17mm
Bredde: 180mm
Højde: 253mm
Forlag: Cambridge University Press
Oplagsdato: 5 apr 2012
Forfatter(e): Toby Handfield
Forfatter(e) Toby Handfield


Kategori Filosofi: metafysik og ontologi


ISBN-13 9781107013780


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 264


Udgave


Længde 17mm


Bredde 180mm


Højde 253mm


Udg. Dato 5 apr 2012


Oplagsdato 5 apr 2012


Forlag Cambridge University Press

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