On Science, Inference, Information and Decision-Making

Selected Essays in the Philosophy of Science

  • Authors
  • Klemens Szaniawski
  • Adam Chmielewski
  • Jan Woleński
Book

Part of the Synthese Library book series (SYLI, volume 271)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xiv
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  2. On Science

    1. Some Remarks on the Philosophy of Science
      Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 1-7
    2. Information and Decision-Making as Tools of Philosophy of Science
      Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 8-18
    3. Method and Creativity in Science
      Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 19-27
    4. Sociology and Models of Rational Behaviour
      Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 28-39
    5. Mathematical Models and Social Facts
      Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 40-44
    6. Science as a Search for Information
      Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 45-53

  3. On Inference

    1. Inference or Behaviour?
      Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 54-61
    2. A Note on Confirmation of Statistical Hypotheses
      Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 62-69
    3. On Some Basic Patterns of Statistical Inference
      Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 70-79
    4. A Method of Deciding between N Statistical Hypotheses
      Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 80-86
    5. A Pragmatic Justification of Rules of Statistical Inference
      Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 87-95
    6. On Sequential Inference
      Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 96-105
    7. Interpretations of the Maximum Likelihood Principle
      Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 106-113

  4. On Information and Decision Making

    1. Some Remarks Concerning the Criterion of Rational Decision-Making
      Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 114-127
    2. The Concept of Distribution of Goods
      Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 128-139
    3. The Value of Perfect Information
      Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 140-153
    4. Questions and their Pragmatic Value
      Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 154-156
    5. Two Concepts of Information
      Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 157-166
    6. Types of Information and their Role in the Methodology of Science
      Klemens Szaniawski
      Pages 167-176

About this book

Keywords

Hypothese Likelihood philosophy of science science sociology statistics

Editors and affiliations

  • Adam Chmielewski
    • 1
  • Jan Woleński
    • 2
  1. 1.University of WrocławPoland
  2. 2.Jagiellonian UniversityKrakówPoland

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5260-0
  • Copyright Information Kluwer Academic Publishers 1998
  • Publisher Name Springer, Dordrecht
  • eBook Packages Springer Book Archive
  • Print ISBN 978-94-010-6213-8
  • Online ISBN 978-94-011-5260-0
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