Probability, Dynamics and Causality
Essays in Honour of Richard C. Jeffrey
Published on 31. March 1997
Book
Hardback
IV, 282 pages
978-0-7923-4361-5 (ISBN)
Description
The book is a collection of essays on various issues in philosophy of science, with special emphasis on the foundations of probability and statistics, and quantum mechanics. The main topics, addressed by some of the most outstanding researchers in the field, are subjective probability, Bayesian statistics, probability kinematics, causal decision making, probability and realism in quantum mechanics.
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Edition
Reprinted from ERKENNTNIS, 45:2-3, 1997
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
IV, 282 p.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
606 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7923-4361-5 (9780792343615)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-011-5712-4
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Probability, Dynamics and Causality
Essays in Honour of Richard C. Jeffrey
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Content
Are there Still Things to Do in Bayesian Statistics?.- De Finetti's Reconstruction of the Bayes-Laplace Paradigm.- On the Notion of Second-Order Exchangeability.- Bayesian Rules of Updating.- "Mises Redux" - Redux: Fifteen Arguments Against Finite Frequentism.- Analogy and Exchangeability in Predictive Inferences.- Probabilism and Beyond.- Confirming Universal Generalizations.- The Structure of Radical Probabilism.- Common Reasoning about Admissibility.- Unknown Probabilities: In Memory of Annemarie Anrod Shimony (1928-1995).- A Bayesian Examination of Time-Symmetry in the Process of Measurement.- Quantum Dynamical Reduction and Reality: Replacing Probability Densities with Densities in Real Space.- Test of the Violation of Local Realism in Quantum Mechanics with No Use of Bell's Inequalities.- Naive Realism about Operators.- Predictive Laws of Association in Statistics and Physics.