Philosophy of Science II.
Causality, probability, confirmation
lectures, Fri 14:00 -
15:30 Room 208
Language: English
Code: FLN-300:17.1 BMA-LOTD-206
BMA-FILD-401.11 BBN-FIL-401.06
Bibliography
- D.H. Mellor: Probability:
A
Philosophical
Introduction, Routledge 2005.
- E.
Szabó László: A nyitott jövő
problémája - véletlen, kauzalitás és determinizmus a fizikában,
Typotex Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 2002. (A könyv
javított digitális
kiadása PDF formában letölthető innen.)
Valószínűség interpretációja, Kauzalitás, Bayesiánus konfirmáció, stb.
Pontosan, a 60-61; 67-86 pontok.
- L. E. Szabó: What remains
of probability?, in D. Dieks, W. Gonzalez, S. Hartmann, M. Weber, F.
Stadler and T. Uebel (eds.), The
Present Situation in the Philosophy of Science, Springer,
forthcoming. [PDF]
- L. E. Szabó: Objective
probability-like things with and without objective
indeterminism, Studies in History and Philosophy of
Modern Physics 38
(2007) 626–634 [Prepirnt
(PDF)] (only the Introduction)
- L. E. Szabó: The
Einstein--Podolsky--Rosen Argument and the Bell Inequalities, Internet
Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2008)
- Causation,
Oxford Readings in Philosophy, E. Sosa and M. Tooley, eds., Oxford
University Press (1997)
- Introduction
to the Philosophy of Science, M.H. Salmon et al. (eds.)
(Prentice
Hall, New Jersey, 1992)
- L. E. Szabó: A
Physicalist Interpretation of Probability
(Talk presented on the International Interdisciplinary Workshop
on Determinism, Ringberg Castle, Germany, June 4 - 8, 2001)
Credit
requirements:
- MA students must prepare from the complete material
of the lectures, including the more formal approaches too.
- PhD students, in addition, must write a 5-10 page
course paper in English, arguing against one of the main
theses I am proposing in the lecture course
2013-02-07
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