John L. Casti

Beyond Belief

Randomness, Prediction and Explanation in Science

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The central issues of prediction, explanation, and mathematical modeling, which underlie all scientific activity, were the focus of a conference organized by the Swedish Council for the Planning and Coordination of Research, held in May of 1989. This volume presents the findings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781315890999
• ISBN-10: 1315890992
• Artikelnr.: 53168107

Autorenporträt

Casti, John L.

Inhaltsangabe

1. What Can We Know? 2. The Anthropic Cosmological Principle: Philosophical
Implication of Self-Reference 3. Problems of Explanation in Physics 4.
Boscovich Covariance 5. Entropy and Correlations in Discrete Dynamical
Systems 6. Dimensions of Atmospheric Variability 7. Sir Isaac Newton and
the Evolution of Clutch Size in Birds: a Defence of the
Hypothetico-Deductive Method in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 8. The
Generic Properties of Morphogenetic Fields 9. Coping With Complexity:
Deterministic Chaos in Human Decision-Making Behaviour 10. Causality,
Chaos, Explanation, and Prediction in Economics and Finance 11. Chaos, G
del, and Truth