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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Claus Beisbart (Dortmund University of Technology) , Stephan Hartmann (Tilburg University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 17.00cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.855kg ISBN: 9780199577439ISBN 10: 0199577439 Pages: 450 Publication Date: 15 September 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsNotes on the Contributors Preface 1: Claus Beisbart and Stephan Hartmann: Introduction I PROBABILITIES IN STATISTICAL PHYSICS 2: Jos Uffink: Subjective Probability and Statistical Physics 3: D. A. Lavis: An Objectivist Account of Probabilities in Statistical Mechanics 4: Craig Callender: The Past Histories of Molecules 5: Roman Frigg and Charlotte Werndl: Entropy: A Guide for the Perplexed 6: Claus Beisbart: Probabilistic Modeling in Physics II PROBABILITIES IN QUANTUM MECHANICS 7: Michael Dickson: Aspects of Probability in Quantum Theory 8: Christopher G. Timpson: Probabilities in Realist Views of Quantum Mechanics 9: Jeffrey Bub: Quantum Probabilities: An Information-Theoretic Interpretation 10: Laura Ruetsche and John Earman: Interpreting Probabilities in Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Statistical Mechanics III PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES 11: Tim Maudlin: Three Roads to Objective Probability 12: Carl Hoefer: Physics and the Humean Approach to Probability 13: Michael Strevens: Probability Out Of Determinism 14: Christian Wüthrich: Can theWorld be Shown to be Indeterministic After All? References IndexReviewsthe collection is of high quality Douglas Kutach, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Author InformationClaus Beisbart is Assistant Professor at the Technical University Dortmund (Germany). He holds a doctorate in physics (2001) and a doctorate in philosophy (2004; both from the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich). During the academic year 2008/09, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. His main work is in the philosophy of physics, in particular the philosophy of cosmology, in the general philosophy of science, and in ethics and social-choice theory. Stephan Hartmann is Chair of Philosophy of Science at LMU Munich, Alexander von Humboldt Professor, and Co-Director of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP). From 2007 to 2012 he worked at Tilburg University, The Netherlands, where he was Chair in Epistemology and Philosophy of Science and Director of the Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS). Before moving to Tilburg, he was Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and Director of LSE's Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science. His primary research and teaching areas are philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, formal epistemology, and social epistemology. Hartmann published numerous articles and the book Bayesian Epistemology (with Luc Bovens) that appeared in 2003 with Oxford University Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |