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Winner in the category of Psychology in the 1987 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc. This monumental work traces the rise, the transformation, and the diffusion of probabilistic and statistical thinking in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors - scientists, historians, and philosophers of science from eight countries make it possible for readers trained in many disciplines to see why the probabilistic revolution has been so complete and so successful. Lorenz KrA ger, and Michael Heidelberger are philosophers of science at Gottingen University. Lorraine J. Daston is a historian at Brandeis University. Gerd Gigerenzer is a psychologist at the University of Constance, and Mary S. Morgan is an economist at York University.
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Lorenz Kru ger is a philosopher of science at Goe ttingen University. Gerd Gigerenzer is Director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and Partner in Simply Rational-The Institute for Decisions. He is the author of Calculated Risks, among other books, and the coeditor of Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox and Heuristics and the Law, both published by the MIT Press. Mary S. Morgan is an economist at York University.
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The Probabilistic Revolution - Volume 2: Ideas in the Sciences
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MIT Press (1990), Cambridge, Mass., 1990
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Softcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. No signatures. Some creasing and rubbing to covers. ; 1990 paperback reprint of a title originally published in 1987. xvi, [4], 459 pages. Page dimensions: 226 x 151mm. "This monumental work traces the rise, the transformation, and the diffusion of probabilistic and statistical thinking in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors - scientists, historians, and philosophers of science from eight countries make it possible for readers trained in many disciplines to see why the probabilistic revolution has been so complete and so successful." Part V of this volume is on Evolutionary Biology, and is made up of the following chapters: "The Probablistic Revolution in Evolutionary Biology - An Overview" by John Beatty; "Natural Selection as a Causal, Empirical, and Probablistic Theory" by J. S. Hodge; "Dobzhansky and Drift: Facts, Values, and Chance in Evolutionary Biology" by John Beatty; "Random Genetic Drift, R. A. Fisher, and the Oxford School of Ecological Genetics" by John R. G. Turner; "On the Prior Probability of the Existence of Life" by Bernd-Olaf Küppers. Part VI on Physics includes the chapter "Max Born and the Reality of Quantum Probabilities" by Nancy Cartwright, along with 3 other chapters on Physics. Artikel-Nr. 18327
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