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Design Inference - Eliminating Chance Through Small Probabilities

by William A. Dembski

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 This challenging and provocative 1998 book shows how incomplete undirected causes are for science and breathes new life into classical design arguments. It will be read with particular interest by philosophers of science and religion, by other philosophers concerned with epistemology and logic, probability and complexity theorists, and by statisticians.
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Rethinking The Foundations Of Statistics

by Joseph B. (Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania) Kadane, Mark J. (Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania) Schervish e Teddy (Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania) Seidenfeld

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 This important collection of essays is a synthesis of foundational studies in Bayesian decision theory and statistics. The collection explores how the norms for Bayesian decision making should apply in settings with more than one rational decision maker and then tracing out some of the consequences of this turn for Bayesian statistics.
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Knowledge And Inquiry - Essays On The Pragmatism Of Isaac Levi

by Erik J. (Lunds Universitet, Sweden) Olsson

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 Isaac Levi has explored the principles of American pragmatism in greater depth and more consistency than others before him. The essays in this volume, written by some of philosophy's finest scholars, contribute substantially to the understanding and appraisal of Levi's work.
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Paradoxes Of Belief And Strategic Rationality

by Robert C. Koons

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 The author argues that a logical paradox lies at the root of a number of persistent puzzles in game theory, in particular those concerning rational agents who seek to establish some kind of reputation. This analysis provides an understanding of how the rational agent model can account for the emergence of rules, practices and institutions.
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The Dynamics Of Norms

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 This 'state-of-the-art' collection of essays presents some of the best contemporary research into the dynamical processes underlying the formation, maintenance, metamorphosis and dissolution of norms. The volume combines formal modelling with more traditional analysis.
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The Foundations Of Causal Decision Theory

by James M. (University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Joyce

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 This book defends the view that any adequate account of rational decision making must take a decision maker's beliefs about causal relations into account. In providing the most complete and robust defence of causal decision theory the book will be of interest to a broad range of readers.
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Betting On Theories

by Patrick Maher

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 This book is a major contribution to decision theory, focusing on the question of when it is rational to accept scientific theories.
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Rationality And Coordination

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 This book explores how individual actions coordinate to produce unintended social consequences. In the past this phenomenon has been explained as the outcome of rational, self-interested individual behaviour. Professor Bicchieri shows that this is in no way a satisfying explanation.
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The Concept Of Probability In Statistical Physics

by Y. M. (Stanford University, California) Guttmann

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 This book provides a most systematic study of how to interpret probabilistic assertions in the context of statistical mechanics. It will be of particular interest to philosophers of science, physicists and mathematicians interested in foundational issues, and also to historians of science.
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Physical Causation

by Phil (University Of Tasmania) Dowe

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 This book, published in 2000, discusses in a systematic way, a positive account of causation: the conserved quantities account of causal processes. It is an important book that will be widely discussed among philosophers and students working in contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of science, and also scientists with an interest in foundational issues.
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Taking Chances - Essays On Rational Choice

by Jordan Howard Sobel

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 In this volume of essays Sobel explores the Bayesian idea that rational actions maximize expected values, where an action's expected value is a weighted average of its agent's values for its possible total outcomes.
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Decision Space - Multidimensional Utility Analysis

by Paul (University Of Missouri, Columbia) Weirich

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 In Decision Space: Multidimensional Utility Analysis, first published in 2001, Paul Weirich increases the power and versatility of utility analysis and in the process advances decision theory. Combining traditional and novel methods of option evaluation into one systematic method, multidimensional utility analysis is a valuable tool in decision theory.
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Equilibrium And Rationality - Game Theory Revised By Decision Rules

by Paul (University Of Missouri, Columbia) Weirich

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 This book offers this conception of equilibrium in games: strategic equilibrium. In synthesizing decision theory and game theory in a powerful way this book will be of particular interest to all philosophers concerned with decision theory and game theory as well as economists and other social scientists.
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Interpreting Probability - Controversies And Developments In The Early Twentieth Century

by David Howie

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 This 2002 book investigates how Bayesianism as one theory of probability was discredited during the 1920s and 1930s by two British scientists and shows how the choice of a certain interpretation of probability depends on the experiences of the individuals involved.
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Knowledge, Belief, And Strategic Interaction

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 A group of pre-eminent figures offer a conspectus of the interaction of game theory, logic and episemology in the formal models of knowledge, belief, deliberation and learning.
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Probabilistic Causality

by Ellery Eells

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 In this important book, Ellery Eells explores and refines philosophical conceptions of probabilistic causality. In a probabilistic theory of causation, causes increase the probability of their effects rather than necessitate their effects in the ways traditional deterministic theories have specified.
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Probability And The Art Of Judgment

by Richard Jeffrey

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 Spanning a period of 35 years, this collection of essays includes some of the classic works of one of the most distinquished and influential philosophers working in the field of decision theory and the theory of knowledge.
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The Structure Of Values And Norms

by Sven Ove (Royal Institute Of Technology, Stockholm) Hansson

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 Hansson has developed a unified formal representation of values and norms that reflects both their static and their dynamic properties. This formalized treatment, carried out in terms of both informal value theory and precise logical detail, will contribute to the clarification of certain issues in the basic philosophical theory of values and norms.
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Causal Asymmetries

by Daniel M. (University Of Wisconsin, Madison) Hausman

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 Causation is asymmetrical in many different ways. Causes precede effects; explanations cite causes not effects. Agents use causes to manipulate their effects; they don't use effects to manipulate their causes. Effects of a common cause are correlated; causes of a common effect are not. This is a major book for philosophers of science that will also prove insightful to economists and statisticians.
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The Design Inference - Eliminating Chance Through Small Probabilities

by William A. Dembski

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 This challenging and provocative 1998 book shows how incomplete undirected causes are for science and breathes new life into classical design arguments. It will be read with particular interest by philosophers of science and religion, by other philosophers concerned with epistemology and logic, probability and complexity theorists, and by statisticians.
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Symmetry And Its Discontents - Essays On The History Of Inductive Probability

by S. L. (Northwestern University, Illinois) Zabell

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 This volume brings together a collection of essays on the history and philosophy of probability and statistics by one of the eminent scholars in these subjects. The essays weave together the history and philosophy of these subjects and document the fascination that they have exercised for more than three centuries.
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Probability And Conditionals - Belief Revision And Rational Decision

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 This collection of essays is on the relation between probabilities, especially conditional probabilities, and conditionals. It provides negative results which sharply limit the ways conditionals can be related to conditional probabilities.
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The Concept Of Probability In Statistical Physics

by Y. M. (Stanford University, California) Guttmann

110,85€ + 10% CARD

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 This book provides a most systematic study of how to interpret probabilistic assertions in the context of statistical mechanics. It will be of particular interest to philosophers of science, physicists and mathematicians interested in foundational issues, and also to historians of science.
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The Foundations Of Causal Decision Theory

by James Joyce e James M. (University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Joyce

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 This book defends the view that any adequate account of rational decision making must take a decision maker's beliefs about causal relations into account. In providing the most complete and robust defence of causal decision theory the book will be of interest to a broad range of readers.
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