Making it Formally Explicit Probability, Causality and Indeterminism [Paperback]

This book collects research papers on the philosophical foundations of probability, causality, spacetime and quantum theory. The papers are related to talks presented in six subsequent workshops organized by The Budapest-Krak?w Research Group on Probability, Causality and Determinism. 

Coverage consists of three parts. Part I focuses on the notion of probability from a general philosophical and formal epistemological perspective. Part II applies probabilistic considerations to address causal questions in the foundations of quantum mechanics. Part III investigates the question of indeterminism in spacetime theories. It also explores some related questions, such as decidability and observation. 

The contributing authors are all philosophers of science with a strong background in mathematics or physics. They believe that paying attention to the finer formal details often helps avoiding pitfalls that exacerbate the philosophical problems that are in the center of focus of contemporary research.

The papers presented here help make explicit the mathematical-structural assumptions that underlie key philosophical argumentations. This formally rigorous and conceptually precise approach will appeal to researchers and philosophers as well as mathematicians and statisticians.

Part I. Probability and chance-credence norms.- Chapter 1. Can Bayesian agents always be rational? A principled analysis of consistency of an Abstract Principal Principle (Mikl?s R?dei and Zal?n Gyenis).- Chapter 2. Does the Principal Principle imply the Principle of Indifference? (Bal?zs Gyenis and Leszek WroDski).- Chapter 3. A Mathematical Approach to Lewis Principal Principle - An Analysis through Examples (Gergei Bana).- Chapter 4. Three methods for solving the problem of inconsistent marginals in data integration (Christian Wallmann and Jon Williamson).- Part II. StlS