Betting on Theories

Informationen zum Autor Patrick Maher enjoys layered children's stories of other times and other worlds that inspire and give pleasure to children and adults alike.His greatest reward would be to know that children and their parents and teachers were teasing apart some of the hidden layers in this novel.The Case of the Nibiru is his first Arthur Templar novel.The next novel in the series is set in a Psychic Academy and is currently titled The Mystery of the Secret Codex. Klappentext This book is a major contribution to decision theory! focusing on the question of when it is rational to accept scientific theories. Zusammenfassung This book is a major contribution to decision theory! focusing on the question of when it is rational to accept scientific theories. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. The logic of preference; 2. Transitivity and normality; 3. Independence; 4. Subjective probability in science; 5. Diachronic rationality; 6. The concept of acceptance; 7. The significance of acceptance; 8. Representation theorem; 9. Scientific values; 10. Proof of theorem; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Maher
• Assisted by: Ernest W. Adams (Editor), Brian Skyrms (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.02.1993
• EAN: 9780521418508
• ISBN: 978-0-521-41850-8
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Probabili
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Probability theory, stochastic theory, mathematical statistics