The Probabilistic Revolution, Volume 2: Ideas in the Sciences (Bradford Books) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262610639 ISBN 13: 9780262610636

Verlag: MIT Press, 1990

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Winner in the category of Psychology in the 1987 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc.

This monumental work traces the rise, the transformation, and the diffusion of probabilistic and statistical thinking in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors - scientists, historians, and philosophers of science from eight countries make it possible for readers trained in many disciplines to see why the probabilistic revolution has been so complete and so successful.

Lorenz KrA¼ger, and Michael Heidelberger are philosophers of science at Gottingen University. Lorraine J. Daston is a historian at Brandeis University. Gerd Gigerenzer is a psychologist at the University of Constance, and Mary S. Morgan is an economist at York University.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Lorenz Krü ger is a philosopher of science at Gö ttingen University.

Gerd Gigerenzer is Director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and Partner in Simply Rational―The Institute for Decisions. He is the author of Calculated Risks, among other books, and the coeditor of Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox and Heuristics and the Law, both published by the MIT Press.

Mary S. Morgan is an economist at York University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0262610639
• ISBN 13: 9780262610636
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480
• Herausgeber: Kruger Lorenz, Gigerenzer Gerd, Morgan Mary S
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