Beyond belief : randomness, prediction, and explanation in science

Title
  1. Beyond belief : randomness, prediction, and explanation in science / editors, John L. Casti, Anders Karlqvist.
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  1. Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, ©1991.

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Additional authors
  1. Casti, J. L.
  2. Karlqvist, Anders.
  3. Sweden. Forskningsrådsnämnden.
Description
  1. xii, 334 pages; 25 cm
Subject
  1. Prognose 2000
  2. Science > Philosophy > Congresses
  3. Science > Methodology > Congresses
  4. Random variables
  5. Forecasting
  6. Explanation
  7. Forecasting
  8. Science > Methodology
  9. Science > Philosophy
  10. Erklärung
  11. Methodologie
  12. Prognose
  13. Wissenschaft
  14. Wissenschaftsphilosophie
  15. Kongress
  16. Wetenschapsbeoefening
  17. Verklaringen
  18. Voorspellingen
  19. Sciences > Philisophie
Genre/Form
  1. Conference papers and proceedings.
  2. Konferenzschrift – 1989 – Abisko.
Contents
  1. What can we know? / Robert Rosen -- The anthropic cosmological principle : philosophical implication of self-reference / Rainer E. Zimmermann -- Problems of explanation in physics / Peter T. Landsberg -- Boscovich covariance / Otto Rössler -- Entropy and correlations in discrete dynamcial systems / Kristian Lindgren -- Dimensions of atmospheric variability / R.T. Pierrehumbert -- Sir Isaac Newton and the evolution of clutch size in birds : a defense of the hypothetico-deductive method in ecology and evolutionary biology / Bertram G. Murray, Jr. -- The generic properties of morphogenetic fields / Brian Goodwin -- Coping with complexity : deterministic chaos in human decisionmaking behavior / Erik Mosekilde, Erik Larsen, and John Sterman -- Causality, chaos, explanation, and prediction in economics and finance / William A. Brock -- Chaos, Gödel, and truth / John L. Casti.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. Papers of participants at an annual workshop, held at the scientific research station of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Abisko, in May 1989, and organized by the Swedish Council for Planning and Coordination of Research.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.