Making it Formally Explicit
Probability, Causality and Indeterminism
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Beschreibung
This book collects research papers on the philosophical foundations of probability, causality, spacetime and quantum theory. The papers are related to talks presented in six subsequent workshops organized by The Budapest-Kraków Research Group on Probability, Causality and Determinism.
Coverage consists of three parts. Part I focuses on the notion of probability from a general philosophical and formal epistemological perspective. Part II applies probabilistic considerations to address causal questions in the foundations of quantum mechanics. Part III investigates the question of indeterminism in spacetime theories. It also explores some related questions, such as decidability and observation.
The contributing authors are all philosophers of science with a strong background in mathematics or physics. They believe that paying attention to the finer formal details often helps avoiding pitfalls that exacerbate the philosophical problems that are in the center of focus of contemporary research.
The papers presented here help make explicit the mathematical-structural assumptions that underlie key philosophical argumentations. This formally rigorous and conceptually precise approach will appeal to researchers and philosophers as well as mathematicians and statisticians.
This book collects research papers on the philosophical foundations of probability, causality, spacetime and quantum theory. The papers are related to talks presented in six subsequent workshops organized by The Budapest-Kraków Research Group on Probability, Causality and Determinism.
Coverage consists of three parts. Part I focuses on the notion of probability from a general philosophical and formal epistemological perspective. Part II applies probabilistic considerations to address causal questions in the foundations of quantum mechanics. Part III investigates the question of indeterminism in spacetime theories. It also explores some related questions, such as decidability and observation.
The contributing authors are all philosophers of science with a strong background in mathematics or physics. They believe that paying attention to the finer formal details often helps avoiding pitfalls that exacerbate the philosophical problems that are in the center of focus of contemporary research.
The papers presented here help make explicit the mathematical-structural assumptions that underlie key philosophical argumentations. This formally rigorous and conceptually precise approach will appeal to researchers and philosophers as well as mathematicians and statisticians.
Explores the philosophical foundations of probability, causality, spacetime and quantum theory Features a formally rigorous and conceptually precise approach Helps make explicit the mathematical-structural assumptions that underlie key philosophical argumentations
Autor*in
Gábor Hofer-Szabó
Themen in »Making it Formally Explicit«
Rationality of Bayesian Agents The Problem of Inconsistent Marginals in Data Integration Reichenbachian Common Cause Systems Reichenbachian Separate Common Causes Reichenbachian EPR Correlations Lewis' Principal Principle Principle of Indifference Non-locality in Quantum Mechanics Semantics in spacetime theories Indeterminism in SpaceTime Theories Extendibility in spacetime theories Emergence of microstates Computational Properties of Undecidable Sentences Reichenbachian non-locality in quantum mechanics