Tychomancy : : Inferring Probability from Causal Structure / / Michael Strevens.
Tychomancy-meaning "the divination of chances"-presents a set of rules for inferring the physical probabilities of outcomes from the causal or dynamic properties of the systems that produce them. Probabilities revealed by the rules are wide-ranging: they include the probability of getting...
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Strevens, Michael, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Tychomancy : Inferring Probability from Causal Structure / Michael Strevens. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013] ©2013 1 online resource (279 p.) : 18 line illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- AUTHOR'S NOTE -- PHYSICAL INTUITION -- I. 1859 -- 1. THE APRIORIST -- 2. THE HISTORICAL WAY -- 3. THE LOGICAL WAY -- 4 THE COGNITIVE WAY -- II. EQUIDYNAMICS -- 5. STIRRING -- 6. SHAKING -- 7. BOUNCING -- 8. UNIFYING -- III. BEYOND PHYSICS -- 9. 1859 AGAIN -- 10. APPLIED BIOEQUIDYNAMICS -- 11. INACCURACY, ERROR, AND OTHER FLUCTUATIONS -- IV. BEFORE AND AFTER -- 12. THE EXOGENOUS ZONE -- 13. THE ELEMENTS OF EQUIDYNAMICS -- 14. PREHISTORY AND META - HISTORY -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY -- REFERENCES -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Tychomancy-meaning "the divination of chances"-presents a set of rules for inferring the physical probabilities of outcomes from the causal or dynamic properties of the systems that produce them. Probabilities revealed by the rules are wide-ranging: they include the probability of getting a 5 on a die roll, the probability distributions found in statistical physics, and the probabilities that underlie many prima facie judgments about fitness in evolutionary biology. Michael Strevens makes three claims about the rules. First, they are reliable. Second, they are known, though not fully consciously, to all human beings: they constitute a key part of the physical intuition that allows us to navigate around the world safely in the absence of formal scientific knowledge. Third, they have played a crucial but unrecognized role in several major scientific innovations. A large part of Tychomancy is devoted to this historical role for probability inference rules. Strevens first analyzes James Clerk Maxwell's extraordinary, apparently a priori, deduction of the molecular velocity distribution in gases, which launched statistical physics. Maxwell did not derive his distribution from logic alone, Strevens proposes, but rather from probabilistic knowledge common to all human beings, even infants as young as six months old. Strevens then turns to Darwin's theory of natural selection, the statistics of measurement, and the creation of models of complex systems, contending in each case that these elements of science could not have emerged when or how they did without the ability to "eyeball" the values of physical probabilities. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Allgemeines, Wissenschaft. Empiricism. Inference. Probabilities. PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology. SCIENCE / History. SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013 9783110317350 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PACKAGE CHEMISTRY, MATERIALS SC., BIOL., GEOSC. 2013 9783110317176 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PAKET CHEMIE, MATERIALWISS., BIOLOGIE, GEOWISS. 2013 9783110317169 ZDB-23-DCM Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) 9783110756067 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 print 9780674073111 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674075986 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674075986 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674075986.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- AUTHOR'S NOTE -- PHYSICAL INTUITION -- I. 1859 -- 1. THE APRIORIST -- 2. THE HISTORICAL WAY -- 3. THE LOGICAL WAY -- 4 THE COGNITIVE WAY -- II. EQUIDYNAMICS -- 5. STIRRING -- 6. SHAKING -- 7. BOUNCING -- 8. UNIFYING -- III. BEYOND PHYSICS -- 9. 1859 AGAIN -- 10. APPLIED BIOEQUIDYNAMICS -- 11. INACCURACY, ERROR, AND OTHER FLUCTUATIONS -- IV. BEFORE AND AFTER -- 12. THE EXOGENOUS ZONE -- 13. THE ELEMENTS OF EQUIDYNAMICS -- 14. PREHISTORY AND META - HISTORY -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY -- REFERENCES -- INDEX |
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