02117nam a22003258a 4500001001600000003000700016005001700023006001900040007001500059008004100074020002600115020002900141020003000170040002400200050002200224082001500246100003000261245010100291264005200392300005900444336002600503337002600529338003600555500007300591520099200664650001101656650001801667776003501685856007101720CR9781139012096UkCbUP20180107143414.0m|||||o||d||||||||cr||||||||||||110202s2012||||enk     s     ||1 0|eng|d  a9781139012096 (ebook)  z9781107013780 (hardback)  z9781107607354 (paperback)  aUkCbUPcUkCbUPerda00aBC141 b.H36 201200a123/.32231 aHandfield, Toby,eauthor.12aA Philosophical Guide to Chance :bPhysical Probability / [electronic resource]cToby Handfield. 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2012.  a1 online resource (264 pages) :bdigital, PDF file(s).  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).  aIt is a commonplace that scientific inquiry makes extensive use of probabilities, many of which seem to be objective chances, describing features of reality that are independent of our minds. Such chances appear to have a number of paradoxical or puzzling features: they appear to be mind-independent facts, but they are intimately connected with rational psychology; they display a temporal asymmetry, but they are supposed to be grounded in physical laws that are time-symmetric; and chances are used to explain and predict frequencies of events, although they cannot be reduced to those frequencies. This book offers an accessible and non-technical introduction to these and other puzzles. Toby Handfield engages with traditional metaphysics and philosophy of science, drawing upon recent work in the foundations of quantum mechanics and thermodynamics to provide a novel account of objective probability that is empirically informed without requiring specialist scientific knowledge. 0aChance 0aProbabilities08iPrint version: z978110701378040uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139012096zCambridge Books Online