A Philosophical Guide to Chance : (Record no. 236650)
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| International Standard Book Number | 9781139012096 (ebook) |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9781107013780 (hardback) |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9781107607354 (paperback) |
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| Original cataloging agency | UkCbUP |
| Transcribing agency | UkCbUP |
| Description conventions | rda |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | BC141 |
| Item number | .H36 2012 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 123/.3 |
| Edition number | 23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Handfield, Toby, |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | A Philosophical Guide to Chance : |
| Remainder of title | Physical Probability / [electronic resource] |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Toby Handfield. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Cambridge : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Cambridge University Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2012. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (264 pages) : |
| Other physical details | digital, PDF file(s). |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | It is a commonplace that scientific inquiry makes extensive use of probabilities, many of which seem to be objective chances, describing features of reality that are independent of our minds. Such chances appear to have a number of paradoxical or puzzling features: they appear to be mind-independent facts, but they are intimately connected with rational psychology; they display a temporal asymmetry, but they are supposed to be grounded in physical laws that are time-symmetric; and chances are used to explain and predict frequencies of events, although they cannot be reduced to those frequencies. This book offers an accessible and non-technical introduction to these and other puzzles. Toby Handfield engages with traditional metaphysics and philosophy of science, drawing upon recent work in the foundations of quantum mechanics and thermodynamics to provide a novel account of objective probability that is empirically informed without requiring specialist scientific knowledge. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Chance |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Probabilities |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781107013780 |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139012096 |
| Public note | Cambridge Books Online |
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