Notes on the Contributors
Preface
1: Claus Beisbart and Stephan Hartmann: Introduction
I PROBABILITIES IN STATISTICAL PHYSICS
2: Jos Uffink: Subjective Probability and Statistical Physics
3: D. A. Lavis: An Objectivist Account of Probabilities in
Statistical Mechanics
4: Craig Callender: The Past Histories of Molecules
5: Roman Frigg and Charlotte Werndl: Entropy: A Guide for the
Perplexed
6: Claus Beisbart: Probabilistic Modeling in Physics
II PROBABILITIES IN QUANTUM MECHANICS
7: Michael Dickson: Aspects of Probability in Quantum Theory
8: Christopher G. Timpson: Probabilities in Realist Views of
Quantum Mechanics
9: Jeffrey Bub: Quantum Probabilities: An Information-Theoretic
Interpretation
10: Laura Ruetsche and John Earman: Interpreting Probabilities in
Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Statistical Mechanics
III PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES
11: Tim Maudlin: Three Roads to Objective Probability
12: Carl Hoefer: Physics and the Humean Approach to Probability
13: Michael Strevens: Probability Out Of Determinism
14: Christian Wüthrich: Can theWorld be Shown to be Indeterministic
After All?
References
Index
Claus Beisbart is Assistant Professor at the Technical University
Dortmund (Germany). He holds a doctorate in physics (2001) and a
doctorate in philosophy (2004; both from the Ludwig Maximilian
University Munich). During the academic year 2008/09, he was a
Visiting Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the
University of Pittsburgh. His main work is in the philosophy of
physics, in particular the philosophy of cosmology, in the general
philosophy of
science, and in ethics and social-choice theory. Stephan Hartmann
is Chair of Philosophy of Science at LMU Munich, Alexander von
Humboldt Professor, and Co-Director of the Munich Center for
Mathematical
Philosophy (MCMP). From 2007 to 2012 he worked at Tilburg
University, The Netherlands, where he was Chair in Epistemology and
Philosophy of Science and Director of the Tilburg Center for Logic
and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS). Before moving to Tilburg, he was
Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and
Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and Director of
LSE's Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science. His
primary research and teaching areas are
philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, formal epistemology,
and social epistemology. Hartmann published numerous articles and
the book Bayesian Epistemology (with Luc Bovens) that appeared
in
2003 with Oxford University Press.
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