Overview
- Explores the philosophical foundations of probability, causality, spacetime and quantum theory
- Features a formally rigorous and conceptually precise approach
- Helps make explicit the mathematical-structural assumptions that underlie key philosophical argumentations
Part of the book series: European Studies in Philosophy of Science (ESPS, volume 6)
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Table of contents (13 papers)
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Probability and Chance-Credence Norms
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Structures for Quantum Experiments
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Indeterminism, Undecidability, and Macrostates
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Keywords
- Rationality of Bayesian Agents
- The Problem of Inconsistent Marginals in Data Integration
- Reichenbachian Common Cause Systems
- Reichenbachian Separate Common Causes
- Reichenbachian EPR Correlations
- Lewis' Principal Principle
- Principle of Indifference
- Non-locality in Quantum Mechanics
- Semantics in spacetime theories
- Indeterminism in SpaceTime Theories
- Extendibility in spacetime theories
- Emergence of microstates
- Computational Properties of Undecidable Sentences
- Reichenbachian non-locality in quantum mechanics
About this book
This book collects research papers on the philosophical foundations of probability, causality, spacetime and quantum theory. The papers are related to talks presented in six subsequent workshops organized by The Budapest-Kraków Research Group on Probability, Causality and Determinism.
Coverage consists of three parts. Part I focuses on the notion of probability from a general philosophical and formal epistemological perspective. Part II applies probabilistic considerations to address causal questions in the foundations of quantum mechanics. Part III investigates the question of indeterminism in spacetime theories. It also explores some related questions, such as decidability and observation.
The contributing authors are all philosophers of science with a strong background in mathematics or physics. They believe that paying attention to the finer formal details often helps avoiding pitfalls that exacerbate the philosophical problems that are in the center of focus of contemporary research.
The papers presented here help make explicit the mathematical-structural assumptions that underlie key philosophical argumentations. This formally rigorous and conceptually precise approach will appeal to researchers and philosophers as well as mathematicians and statisticians.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Leszek Wroński is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He is mainly interested in formal epistemology and philosophy of probability, having authored and co-authored also papers on probabilistic causality and the Branching Space-Times theory.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Making it Formally Explicit
Book Subtitle: Probability, Causality and Indeterminism
Editors: Gábor Hofer-Szabó, Leszek Wroński
Series Title: European Studies in Philosophy of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55486-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55485-3Published: 20 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85673-5Published: 09 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55486-0Published: 18 April 2017
Series ISSN: 2365-4228
Series E-ISSN: 2365-4236
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 242
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Mathematics, Quantum Physics, Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes, Classical Mechanics, Epistemology