Probability, Dynamics and Causality: Essays in Honour of Richard C. Jeffrey

ISBN-13: 9780792343615 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 282 str.

D. Costantini; Maria Carla Galavotti; Domenico Costantini

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This is a collection of essays on various issues in the philosophy of science, with special emphasis on the foundations of probability and statistics, and quantum mechanics. The main topics are: subjective probability, Bayesian statistics, probability kinematics, causal decision making, and probability and realism in quantum mechanics.

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Preface; D. Costantini, M.C. Galavotti. For the Birthday of a Decision Theorist; A. Shimony. Are There Still Things to Do in Bayesian Statistics? P. Diaconis, S. Holmes. De Finetti's Reconstruction of the Bayes-Laplace Paradigm; E. Regazzini. On the Notion of Second-Order Exchangeability; A. Wedlin. Bayesian Rules of Updating; C. Howson. `Mises Redux' - Redux: Fifteen Arguments Against Finite Frequentism; A. Hájek. Analogy and Exchangeability in Predictive Inferences; R. Festa. Probabilism and Beyond; M.C. Galavotti. Confirming Universal Generalizations; S. Zabell. The Structure of Radical Probabilism; B. Skyrms. Common Reasoning About Admissibility; C. Bicchieri, O. Schulte. Unknown Probabilities; R. Jeffrey. A Bayesian Examination of Time-Symmetry in the Process of Measurement; A. Shimony. Quantum Dynamical Reduction and Reality: Replacing Probability Densities with Densities in Real Space; G. Ghirardi. Violation of Local Realism in Quantum Mechanics with No Use of Bell's Inequalities; G. Di Giuseppe, et al. Naive Realism about Operators; M. Daumer, et al. Predictive Laws of Association in Statistics and Physics; D. Costantini, U. Garibaldi.