Patrick Suppes: Scientific Philosopher
Springer (Verlag)
978-0-7923-2552-9 (ISBN)
In Volume 1: Probability and Probabilistic Causality, nineteen distinguished philosophers and scientists focus their attention on probabilistic issues. In Part I the contributors explore axiomatic representations of probability theory including qualitative and interval valued probabilities as well as traditional point valued probabilities. Belief structures and the dynamics of belief are also treated in detail. In Part II the rapidly growing field of probabilistic causation is assessed from both formal and empirical viewpoints.
For probability theorists, statisticians, economists, philosophers of science, psychologists and those interested in the foundations of mathematical social science.
In Volume 2: Philosophy of Physics, Theory Structure, and Measurement Theory, fifteen distinguished philosophers and scientists cover a wide variety of topics. Part III covers issues in quantum theory, geometry, classical mechanics, and computational physics. Part IV explores Suppes's well known set-theoretic account of scientific theories which has served him well throughout his career. Suppes's contributions to measurement theory have been widely used in mathematical psychology and elsewhere, and this material is the subject of Part V.
For physicists, logicians, workers in mathematical social sicence, and philosophers of science.
In Volume 3: Philosophy of Language and Logic, Learning and Action Theory, fourteen distinguished philosophers and scientists explore issues in the philosophy of language, logic, and philosophical psychology. Suppes's suggestions that quantum theory requires a rethinking of classical logic form a particularly sharp account of that controversial thesis, and Part VI deals with this issue together with topics in the philosophy of language and logic, including relational grammars and anaphora. Part VII deals with issues in psychology, action theory, and robotics, while Part VIII concludes with a general survey of Suppes's views in the philosophy of science. A comprehensive chronological and topical bibliography of Suppes's writings is included in this volume.
For philosophers of language, theoretical linguists, logicians, workers in mathematical social sciences, and philosophers of science.
I: Probability.- Some Contributions to Formal Theory of Probability / Comments by Patrick Suppes.- Elementary Non-Archimedean Representations of Probability for Decision Theory and Games / Comments by Patrick Suppes.- Random Sequences and Hypotheses Tests / Comments by Patrick Suppes.- Changing Probability Judgements / Comments by Patrick Suppes.- Upper and Lower Probability / Comments by Patrick Suppes.- Some Connections between Epistemic Logic and the Theory of Nonadditive Probability / Comments by Patrick Suppes.- On the Properties of Conditional Independence / Comments by Patrick Suppes.- Qualitative Probabilities Revisited / Comments by Patrick Suppes.- The Monks’ Vote: A Dialogue on Unidimensional Probabilistic Geometry / Comments by Patrick Suppes.- II: Probabilistic Causality.- Probabilistic Causation Without Probability / Comments by Patrick Suppes.- Causal Tendency, Necessitivity and Sufficientivity: An Updated Review / Comments by Patrick Suppes.- Practical Causal Generalizations / Comments by Patrick Suppes.- In Place of Regression / Comments by Patrick Suppes.- Testing Probabilistic Causality / Comments by Patrick Suppes.- Psychologistic Aspects of Suppes’s Definition of Causality / Comments by Patrick Suppes.- Name Index.- Table of Contents to Volumes 2 and 3.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.9.1994 |
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Reihe/Serie | Synthese Library ; 234 |
Zusatzinfo | XIX, 420 p. |
Verlagsort | Dordrecht |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie | |
Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik | |
Naturwissenschaften | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7923-2552-4 / 0792325524 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7923-2552-9 / 9780792325529 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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