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Probabilistic Thinking, Thermodynamics and the Interaction of the History and Philosophy of Science

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Why do We Find the Origin of a Calculus of Probabilities in the Seventeenth Century?
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    Chapter 2 Some Remarks on the Calculus of Probability in the Eighteenth Century
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    Chapter 3 Probability and the Problem of Induction
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    Chapter 4 Probabilities and Causes: On Life Tables, Causes of Death, and Etiological Diagnoses
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    Chapter 5 From the Emergence of Probability to the Erosion of Determinism
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    Chapter 6 John Venn’s Logic of Chance
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    Chapter 7 Robert Leslie Ellis and the Frequency Theory
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    Chapter 8 Reduction as a Problem
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    Chapter 9 Boltzmann’s Conception of Theory Construction: The Promotion of Pluralism, Provisionalism, and Pragmatic Realism
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    Chapter 10 The Mach-Boltzmann Controversy and Maxwell’s Views on Physical Reality
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    Chapter 11 Boltzmann, Mach and Russian Physicists of the Late Nineteenth Century
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    Chapter 12 An Example of a Theory-Frame: Equilibrium Thermodynamics
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    Chapter 13 What have the History and Philosophy of Science to do for one Another?
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    Chapter 14 A Comment on E. Agazzi, ‘What have the History and Philosophy of Science to do for One Another’
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    Chapter 15 Methodology and the Functional Identity of Science and Philosophy
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    Chapter 16 On Making History
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    Chapter 17 A Comment on J. D. North, ‘On Making History’
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    Chapter 18 Reply to John D. North, ‘On Making History’
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    Chapter 19 Influences of Some Concepts of Biology on Progress in Philosophy
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    Chapter 20 Philosophy of Science, History of Science, and Science of Science
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    Chapter 21 Interrelations between History of Science and Philosophy of Science in Research in the Development of Technical Sciences
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    Chapter 22 From History of Science to Theory of Science: An Essay on V. I. Vernadsky’s Work (1863–1945)
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    Chapter 23 Utility Versus Truth
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Title
Probabilistic Thinking, Thermodynamics and the Interaction of the History and Philosophy of Science
Published by
Springer Netherlands, April 2013
DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-2766-2
ISBNs
978-9-04-818361-6, 978-9-40-172766-2
Editors

Hintikka, Jaakko, Gruender, David, Agazzi, Evandro

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Unknown 9 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Professor 2 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 22%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 11%
Unknown 4 44%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Philosophy 2 22%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 11%
Social Sciences 1 11%
Unknown 4 44%