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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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Chapter title
From History of Science to Theory of Science: An Essay on V. I. Vernadsky’s Work (1863–1945)
Chapter number 22
Book title
Probabilistic Thinking, Thermodynamics and the Interaction of the History and Philosophy of Science
Published by
Springer, Dordrecht, January 1980
DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-2766-2_22
Book ISBNs
978-9-04-818361-6, 978-9-40-172766-2
Authors

M. S. Bastrakova, Bastrakova, M. S.

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