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Author:   Gábor Hofer-Szabó ,  Leszek Wroński
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2017
Volume:   6
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   5.089kg
ISBN:  

9783319554853

ISBN 10:   3319554859
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   20 April 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Part I. Probability and chance-credence norms.- Chapter 1. Can Bayesian agents always be rational? A principled analysis of consistency of an Abstract Principal Principle (Miklós Rédei and Zalán Gyenis).- Chapter 2. Does the Principal Principle imply the Principle of Indifference? (Balázs Gyenis and Leszek Wroński).- Chapter 3. A Mathematical Approach to Lewis’ Principal Principle - An Analysis through Examples (Gergei Bana).- Chapter 4. Three methods for solving the problem of inconsistent marginals in data integration (Christian Wallmann and Jon Williamson).- Part II. Structures for quantum experiments.- Chapter 5. Separate common causes and EPR correlations – an ``almost no-go'' result (Tomasz Placek, Leszek Wroński and Michał Tomasz Godziszewski).- Chapter 6. On quantum nonlocal correlations and probability spaces used to model them (Márton Gömöri and Tomasz Placek).- Chapter 7. Reichenbachian common cause systems of size 3 in general probability theories (Yuichiro Kitajima).- Chapter 8. Two Sources of Non-locality in Quantum Mechanics? (Iñaki San Pedro).- Part III. Indeterminism, Undecidability, and Macrostates.- Chapter 9. On the semantics of spacetime theories (László E. Szabó).- Chapter 10. Indeterminism, Gravitation, and Spacetime Theory (Samuel C. Fletcher).- Chapter 11. Extendible maximal globally hyperbolic spacetimes in classical general relativity: a philosophical survey (Juliusz Doboszewski).- Chapter 12. On the emergence of macrostates (Márton Gömöri, Balázs Gyenis, Gábor Hofer-Szabó).- Chapter 13. Experimental Logics as a Model of Development of Deductive Science and Computational Properties of Undecidable Sentences (Michał Tomasz Godziszewski)

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Gábor Hofer-Szabó is a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Philosophy, Research Center for the Humanities at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His main fields of research are foundations of quantum mechanics, interpretations of probability and probabilistic causality. Leszek Wroński is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He is mainly interested in formal epistemology and philosophy of probability, having authored and co-authored also papers on probabilistic causality and the Branching Space-Times theory.

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