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This book tells how quantitative ideas of chance have transformed the natural and social sciences as well as everyday life over the past three centuries. A continuous narrative connects the earliest application of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent forays into law, medicine, polling, and baseball. Separate chapters explore the theoretical and methodological impact on biology, physics, and psychology. In contrast to the literature on the mathematical development of probability and statistics, this book centers on how these technical innovations recreated our conceptions of nature, mind, and society.
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The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life (Ideas in Context, Series Number 12)
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The Empire of Chance tells how quantitative ideas of chance transformed the natural and social sciences, as well as daily life over the last three centuries. A continuous narrative connects the earliest application of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent forays into law, medicine, polling and baseball. Separate chapters explore the theoretical and methodological impact in biology, physics and psychology. Themes recur - determinism, inference, causality, free will, evidence, the shifting meaning of probability - but in dramatically different disciplinary and historical contexts. In contrast to the literature on the mathematical development of probability and statistics, this book centres on how these technical innovations remade our conceptions of nature, mind and society. Written by an interdisciplinary team of historians and philosophers, this readable, lucid account keeps technical material to an absolute minimum. It is aimed not only at specialists in the history and philosophy of science, but also at the general reader and scholars in other disciplines. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Artikel-Nr. GOR006860031
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The Empire of Chance : How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life
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Reprint. Near fine paperback copy; wrapper edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 360 pages; 21cm. Notes: Bibliography: p293-326. - Includes index. Contents:Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Classical probabilities, 1660-1840 -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The beginnings -- 1.3 The classical interpretation -- 1.4 Determinism -- 1.5 Reasonableness -- 1.6 Risk in gambling and insurance -- 1.7 Evidence and causes -- 1.8 The moral sciences -- 1.9 Conclusion -- 2 Statistical probabilities, 1820-1900 -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Statistical regularity and l'homme moyen -- 2.3 Opposition to statistics -- 2.4 Statistics and variation -- 2.5 The error law and correlation -- 2.6 The statistical critique of determinism -- 2.7 Conclusion -- 3 The inference experts -- 3.1 In want of a "system of mean results -- 3.2 Analysis of variance -- 3.3 Fisher's antecedents: early significance tests and comparative experimentation -- 3.4 The controversy: Fisher vs. Neyman and Pearson -- 3.5 Hybridization: the silent solution -- 3.6 The statistical profession: intellectual autonomy -- 3.7 The statistical profession: institutions and influence -- 3.8 Conclusion -- 4 Chance and life: controversies in modem biology -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Spontaneity and control: chance in physiology -- 4.3 Coincidence and design: chance in natural history -- 4.4 Correlations and causes: chance in genetics -- 4.5 Sampling and selection: chance in evolutionary biology -- 5 The probabilistic revolution in physics -- 5.1 The background: classical physics -- 5.2 Probability in classical physics: the epistemic interpretation -- 5.3 Three limitations of classical physics: sources of probabilism -- 5.4 Comments on the three limitations -- 5.5 Mass phenomena and propensities -- 5.6 Explanations from probabilistic assumptions -- 5.7 The puzzle of irreversibility in time -- 5.8 The discontinuity underlying all change -- 6 Statistics of the mind -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The pre-statistical period. 6.3 The new tools -- 6.4 From tools to theories of mind -- 6.5 A case study: from thinking to judgments under uncertainty -- 6.6 The return of the reasonable man -- 6.7 Conclusion -- 7 Numbers rule the world -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 New objects -- 7.3 New values -- 7.4 New rules -- 7.5 Conclusion -- 8 The implications of chance -- 8.1 Probabilistic imperialism -- 8.2 What does probability mean? -- 8.3 Determinism -- 8.4 Mechanized inference -- 8.5 Statistical Lebensgef uhl -- References -- Name index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Subject index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z. Subjects: Probabilities. Mathematical statistics. Science -- Philosophy. Probabilities.Science. Probabilities History. Mathematical statistics History. Science Philosophy History.Philosophy. ProbabilityProbabilités. Statistique mathématique. Sciences Philosophie. Philosophie.Sciences. probability.philosophy. sciences (philosophy). Science.Philosophy. Mathematical statistics. Probabilities.Science Philosophy. Probabilities Philosophy.Mathematical statistics.Science Philosophy. MATHEMATICS Reference.Mathematical statistics.Science Philosophy. Science PhilosophyProbability. Probabilities.Mathematical statistics.Science Philosophy.Probabilities. Mathematical statistics. Probabilities Philosophy. Science Philosophy History. Probabilities Philosophical perspectives 1 Kg. Artikel-Nr. 390024
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The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life (Ideas in Context, Series Number 12)
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