1st Edition
Beyond Belief Randomness, Prediction and Explanation in Science
By John L. Casti
Copyright 1991
356 Pages
by
CRC Press
356 Pages
by
CRC Press
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How can we predict and explain the phenomena of nature? What are the limits to this knowledge process? The central issues of prediction, explanation, and mathematical modeling, which underlie all scientific activity, were the focus of a conference organized by the Swedish Council for the Planning and Coordination of Research, held at the Abisko Research Station in May of 1989. At this forum, a... Read more
1. What Can We Know? 2. The Anthropic Cosmological Principle: Philosophical Implication of Self-Reference 3. Problems of Explanation in Physics 4. Boscovich Covariance 5. Entropy and Correlations in Discrete Dynamical Systems 6. Dimensions of Atmospheric Variability 7. Sir Isaac Newton and the Evolution of Clutch Size in Birds: a Defence of the Hypothetico-Deductive Method in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 8. The Generic Properties of Morphogenetic Fields 9. Coping With Complexity: Deterministic Chaos in Human Decision-Making Behaviour 10. Causality, Chaos, Explanation, and Prediction in Economics and Finance 11. Chaos, G del, and Truth
Biography
Casti, John L.
