Patrick Suppes: Scientific Philosopher

Volume 1. Probability and Probabilistic Causality

Buch | Hardcover

420 Seiten

1994
Springer (Verlag)
978-0-7923-2552-9 (ISBN)

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Patrick Suppes is a philosopher and scientist whose contributions range over probability and statistics, mathematical and experimental psychology, the foundations of physics, education theory, the philosophy of language, measurement theory, and the philosophy of science. He has also been a pioneer in the area of computer assisted instruction. In each of these areas, Suppes has provided seminal ideas that in some cases led to shaping the direction of research in the field. The papers contained in this collection were commissioned with the mandate of advancing research in their respective fields rather than retrospectively surveying the contributions that Suppes himself has made. The authors form an interesting mixture of researchers in both formal philosophy of science and science itself all of whom have been inspired by his ideas. To maintain the spirit of constructive dialogue that characterizes Suppes's intellectual style, he has written individual responses to each article.

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
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