Name: A Philosophical Guide to Chance: Physical Probability. By Toby Handfield (en Inglés)
Price: 168533.00 COP
Availability: InStock
Author: Handfield, Toby
ISBN: 9781107607354

portada A Philosophical Guide to Chance: Physical Probability. By Toby Handfield (en Inglés)

A Philosophical Guide to Chance: Physical Probability. By Toby Handfield (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Toby Handfield

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Año

2012

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

264

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

24.4 x 17.3 x 1.3 cm

Peso

0.52 kg.

ISBN

1107607353

ISBN13

9781107607354

Categorías

Filosofía de la ciencia
Influencia de la ciencia y la tecnología sobre la sociedad
Temas de la filosofía

A Philosophical Guide to Chance: Physical Probability. By Toby Handfield (en Inglés)

Toby Handfield (Autor) · Cambridge University Press · Tapa Blanda

Libro Nuevo Importado

Envío: 11 a 15 días háb.

$ 306.423$ 168.533

-45%

Costos de importación incluídos en el precio ✅

Libro Nuevo

Quedan más de 100 unidades

$ 168.533

¡Envío Gratis! Llega entre el 24 Ago y el 31 Ago a Bogota, Cundinamarca. Seleccionar ubicación

Agregar a lista de deseos

Reseña del libro "A Philosophical Guide to Chance: Physical Probability. By Toby Handfield (en Inglés)"

It is a commonplace that scientific inquiry makes extensive use of probabilities, many of which seem to be objective chances, describing features of reality that are independent of our minds. Such chances appear to have a number of paradoxical or puzzling features: they appear to be mind-independent facts, but they are intimately connected with rational psychology; they display a temporal asymmetry, but they are supposed to be grounded in physical laws that are time-symmetric; and chances are used to explain and predict frequencies of events, although they cannot be reduced to those frequencies. This book offers an accessible and non-technical introduction to these and other puzzles. Toby Handfield engages with traditional metaphysics and philosophy of science, drawing upon recent work in the foundations of quantum mechanics and thermodynamics to provide a novel account of objective probability that is empirically informed without requiring specialist scientific knowledge.