On science, inference, information and decision-making : selected essays in the philosophy of science
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| 100 | 1 | ▼a Szaniawski, Klemens. |
| 245 | 1 0 | ▼a On science, inference, information and decision-making : ▼b selected essays in the philosophy of science / ▼c Klemens Szaniawski ; edited by Adam Chmielewski and Jan Wolenski. |
| 260 | ▼a Dordrecht ; ▼a Boston : ▼b Kluwer Academic Publishers, ▼c c1998. | |
| 300 | ▼a xiv, 242 p. : ▼b ill. ; ▼c 25 cm. | |
| 440 | 0 | ▼a Synthese library ; ▼v v. 271 |
| 504 | ▼a Includes bibliographical references and index. | |
| 565 | 0 | ▼a Mathematical statistics. |
| 650 | 0 | ▼a Science ▼x Philosophy. |
| 650 | 0 | ▼a Science ▼x Methodology. |
| 650 | 0 | ▼a Decision making. |
| 700 | 1 | ▼a Chmielewski, Adam. |
| 700 | 1 | ▼a Wolenski, Jan. |
| 938 | ▼a Otto Harrassowitz ▼b HARR ▼n har005038525 ▼c 213.00 DEM |
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Table of Contents
CONTENTS Preface = ⅸ ACKOWLEDGEMENTS = xiii Ⅰ : ON SCIENCE 1. Some remarks on the philosophy of science = 1 2. Information and decision-making as tools of philosophy of science = 8 3. Method and creativity in science = 19 4. Sociology and models of rational behaviour = 28 5. Mathematical models and social facts = 40 6. Science as a search for information = 45 Ⅱ : ON INFERENCE 7. Inference or behaviour? = 54 8. A note on confirmation of statistical hypotheses = 62 9. On some basic patterns of statistical inference = 70 10. A method of deciding between N statistical hypostheses = 80 11. A pragmatic justification of rules of statistical inference = 87 12. On sequential inference = 96 13. Interpretations of the maximum likelihood principle = 106 Ⅲ. ON INFORMATION AND DECISION MAKING 14. Some remarks concerning the criterion of rational decision-making = 114 15. The concept of distribution of goods = 128 16. The value of perfact information = 140 17. Questions and their pragmatic value = 154 18. Two concepts of information = 157 19. Types of information and their role in the methodology of science = 167 20. Information in decision-marking. Some logical aspects = 177 21. Decision-making and future rearch. Some theoretical problems = 191 22. On formal aspects of distributive justice = 200 23. Philosophy and decision-making = 210 24. The concept of unreliable information = 222 25. On defining information = 226 APPENDIX 26. Rationality as a value = 232 INDEX OF NAMES = 241
