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Beyond belief : randomness, prediction, and explanation in science

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

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xii, 334 pages; 25 cm

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Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.
Konferenzschrift – 1989 – Abisko.

Note

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)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

ISBN

0849342910
9780849342912

LCCN

90015005

OCLC

ocm22420270
22420270
SCSB-1907587

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Princeton University Library