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On Science, Inference, Information and Decision-Making

Selected Essays in the Philosophy of Science

Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 271)

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. On Science

    1. Some Remarks on the Philosophy of Science

      • Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 1-7
    2. Method and Creativity in Science

      • Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 19-27
    3. Sociology and Models of Rational Behaviour

      • Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 28-39
    4. Mathematical Models and Social Facts

      • Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 40-44
    5. Science as a Search for Information

      • Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 45-53
  3. On Inference

    1. Inference or Behaviour?

      • Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 54-61
    2. A Note on Confirmation of Statistical Hypotheses

      • Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 62-69
    3. On Some Basic Patterns of Statistical Inference

      • Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 70-79
    4. On Sequential Inference

      • Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 96-105
    5. Interpretations of the Maximum Likelihood Principle

      • Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 106-113
  4. On Information and Decision Making

    1. The Concept of Distribution of Goods

      • Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 128-139
    2. The Value of Perfect Information

      • Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 140-153
    3. Questions and their Pragmatic Value

      • Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 154-156
    4. Two Concepts of Information

      • Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 157-166

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Wrocław, Poland

    Adam Chmielewski

  • Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

    Jan Woleński

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: On Science, Inference, Information and Decision-Making

  • Book Subtitle: Selected Essays in the Philosophy of Science

  • Authors: Klemens Szaniawski

  • Editors: Adam Chmielewski, Jan Woleński

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5260-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4922-8Published: 30 September 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-6213-8Published: 11 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-5260-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 242

  • Topics: Logic, Statistics, general, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes

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