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Probability in the Sciences

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  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. Evandro Agazzi

    1. University of Fribourg, Switzerland
      University of Genova, Italy

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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 201)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Logical, Methodological and Philosophical Aspects of Probability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Probability: A Composite Concept

      • Evandro Agazzi
      Pages 3-26

    3. Two Faces and Three Masks of Probability

      • Mario Bunge
      Pages 27-49

    4. Ambiguous Uses of Probability

      • Italo Scardovi
      Pages 51-66

    5. Some Logical Distinctions Exploited by Differing Analyses of Pascalian Probability

      • L. Jonathan Cohen
      Pages 67-76

    6. Probability and Confirmation

      • Craig Dilworth
      Pages 77-87

    7. Chance, Cause, and the State-Space Approach

      • Giuseppe Del Re
      Pages 89-101

    8. World as System Self-Synthesized by Quantum Networking

      • John Archibald Wheeler
      Pages 103-129

    9. A Brief Note on the Relationship between Probability, Selective Strategies and Possible Models

      • Valerio Tonini
      Pages 131-134

  3. Probability, Statistics and Information

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
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    2. Critical Replications for Statistical Design

      • Leslie Kish
      Pages 137-147

    3. The Contribution of A.N. Kolmogorov to the Notion of Entropy

      • Mario Casartelli
      Pages 149-159

    4. The Probability of Singular Events

      • Hans Freudenthal
      Pages 161-164

    5. Probability, Randomness and Information

      • Arturo Carsetti
      Pages 165-172

  4. Probability in the Natural Sciences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173
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    2. Probability, Organization and Evolution in Biochemistry

      • Jaques Ricard
      Pages 175-182

    3. Relativity and Probability, Classical and Quantal

      • O. Costa de Beauregard
      Pages 183-202

    4. Probabilistic Ontology and Space-Time: Updating an Historical Debate

      • Massimo Pauri
      Pages 203-215

    5. Probability and the Mystery of Quantum Mechanics

      • Alberto Cordero
      Pages 217-235
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Keywords

About this book

Probability has become one of the most characteristic con­ cepts of modern culture, and a 'probabilistic way of thinking' may be said to have penetrated almost every sector of our in­ tellectual life. However it would be difficult to determine an explicit list of 'positive' features, to be proposed as identifica­ tion marks of this way of thinking. One would rather say that it is characterized by certain 'negative' features, i. e. by certain at­ titudes which appear to be the negation of well established tra­ ditional assumptions, conceptual frameworks, world outlooks and the like. It is because of this opposition to tradition that the probabilistic approach is perceived as expressing a 'modern' in­ tellectual style. As an example one could mention the widespread diffidence in philosophy with respect to self -contained systems claiming to express apodictic truths, instead of which much weaker pretensions are preferred, that express 'probable' interpretations of reality, of history, of man (the hermeneutic trend). An ana­ logous example is represented by the interest devoted to the study of different patterns of 'argumentation', dealing wiht reasonings which rely not so much on the truth of the premisses and stringent formal logic links, but on a display of contextual conditions (depending on the audience, and on accepted stan­ dards, judgements, and values), which render the premisses and the conclusions more 'probable' (the new rhetoric).

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Fribourg, Switzerland

    Evandro Agazzi

  • University of Genova, Italy

    Evandro Agazzi

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Probability in the Sciences

  • Editors: Evandro Agazzi

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3061-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1988

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2808-1Published: 30 September 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7877-1Published: 03 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-3061-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 269

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, Logic, Statistics, general, Metaphysics

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