On science, inference, information and decision-making. Selected essays in the philosophy of science. Ed. by Adam Chmielewski and Jan Woleński
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title: On science, inference, information and decision-making. Selected essays in the philosophy of science. Ed. by Adam Chmielewski and Jan Woleński
zbMATH Open document ID: 0955.03010
author: Klemens Szaniawski
published in: Synthese Library
publication date: 2000-10-09T00:00:00Z
review text: The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually. Publisher's description: There are two competing pictures of science. One considers science as a system of inferences, whereas another looks at science as a system of actions. The essays included in this collection offer a view which intends to combine both pictures. This compromise is well illustrated by Szaniawski's analysis of statistical inferences. It is shown that traditional approaches to the foundations of statistics do not need to be regarded as conflicting with each other. Thus, statistical rules can be treated as rules of behaviour as well as rules of inference. Szaniawski's uniform approach relies on the concept of rationality, analyzed from the point of view of decision theory. Applications of formal tools to the problem of justice and division of goods shows that the concept of rationality has a wider significance. The book will be of interest to philosophers of science, logicians, ethicists and mathematicians. Contents: Part I: On science: ``Some remarks on the philosophy of science'' (pp. 1-7); ``Information and decision-making as tools of philosophy of science'' (pp. 8-18); ``Method and creativity in science'' (pp. 19-27); ``Sociology and models of rational behaviour'' (pp. 28-39); ``Mathematical models and social facts'' (pp. 40-44); ``Science as a search for information'' (pp. 45-53). Part II: On inference: ``Inference or behaviour?'' (pp. 54-61); ``A note on confirmation of statistical hypotheses'' (pp. 62-69); ``On some basic patterns of statistical inference'' (pp. 70-79); ``A method of deciding between \(N\) statistical hypotheses'' (pp. 80-86); ``A pragmatic justification of rules of statistical inference'' (pp. 87-95); ``On sequential inference'' (pp. 96-105); ``Interpretations of the maximum likelihood principle'' (pp. 106-113). Part III: On information and decision making: ``Some remarks concerning the criterion of rational decision-making'' (pp. 114-127); ``The concept of distr…
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03-06
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A75
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03A05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03B30
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 62A01
zbMATH DE Number: 1515084
zbMATH Keywords: Science
zbMATH Keywords: Inference
zbMATH Keywords: Information
zbMATH Keywords: Decision-making
zbMATH Keywords: Essays
zbMATH Keywords: Philosophy of science
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