Author : Mary Hesse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 17,58 MB
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 0520359879
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.
Author : Mary Hesse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,94 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 0520313313
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.
Author : Wesley Salmon
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 1967-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0822971259
Not since Ernest Nagel’s 1939 monograph on the theory of probability has there been a comprehensive elementary survey of the philosophical problems of probablity and induction. This is an authoritative and up-to-date treatment of the subject, and yet it is relatively brief and nontechnical. Hume’s skeptical arguments regarding the justification of induction are taken as a point of departure, and a variety of traditional and contemporary ways of dealing with this problem are considered. The author then sets forth his own criteria of adequacy for interpretations of probability. Utilizing these criteria he analyzes contemporary theories of probability, as well as the older classical and subjective interpretations.
Author : Gary King
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 21,54 MB
Release : 1994-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0691034710
Designing Social Inquiry focuses on improving qualitative research, where numerical measurement is either impossible or undesirable. What are the right questions to ask? How should you define and make inferences about causal effects? How can you avoid bias? How many cases do you need, and how should they be selected? What are the consequences of unavoidable problems in qualitative research, such as measurement error, incomplete information, or omitted variables? What are proper ways to estimate and report the uncertainty of your conclusions?
Author : Mary B. Hesse
Publisher :
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Knowledge, Theory Of
ISBN :
Author : Mary B. Hesse
Publisher :
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 26,50 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : 9780333150702
Author : D.A. Sprott
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 36,50 MB
Release : 2000-06-22
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0387950192
A treatment of the problems of inference associated with experiments in science, with the emphasis on techniques for dividing the sample information into various parts, such that the diverse problems of inference that arise from repeatable experiments may be addressed. A particularly valuable feature is the large number of practical examples, many of which use data taken from experiments published in various scientific journals. This book evolved from the authors own courses on statistical inference, and assumes an introductory course in probability, including the calculation and manipulation of probability functions and density functions, transformation of variables and the use of Jacobians. While this is a suitable text book for advanced undergraduate, Masters, and Ph.D. statistics students, it may also be used as a reference book.
Author : Wesley C. Salmon
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 31,60 MB
Release : 1994-01-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780822970354
Logic, Language, and the Structure of Scientific Theories, the second book in the Pittsburgh-Konstanz Series, marks the centennial of the births of Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach. Original essays by internationally distinguished scholars range from epistemology and philosophy of language to logic, semantics, the philosophy of physics and mathematics. In the realm of philosophy of physics it focuses upon such topics as space, time, and causality, which play fundamental roles in relativity theory and quantum mechanics.
Author : Otto Neurath
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 33,22 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Econometrics
ISBN :
Author : Peter Kosso
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 19,19 MB
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 1316867447
The concept of gravity provides a natural phenomenon that is simultaneously obvious and obscure; we all know what it is, but rarely question why it is. The simple observation that 'what goes up must come down' contrasts starkly with our current scientific explanation of gravity, which involves challenging and sometimes counterintuitive concepts. With such extremes between the plain and the perplexing, gravity forces a sharp focus on scientific method. Following the history of gravity from Aristotle to Einstein, this clear account highlights the logic of scientific method for non-specialists. Successive theories of gravity and the evidence for each are presented clearly and rationally, focusing on the fundamental ideas behind them. Using only high-school level algebra and geometry, the author emphasizes what the equations mean rather than how they are derived, making this accessible for all those curious about gravity and how science really works.
