A Theory of Physical Probability

✍ Scribed by Richard Johns

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 265
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Richard Johns argues that random events are fully caused and lack only determination by their causes; according to his causal theory of chance, the physical chance of an event is the degree to which the event is determined by its causes.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
1. Introduction
2. Logic and Probability
3. Causation and Determination
4. Physical Chance
5. Classical Stochastic Mechanics
6. Correlation
7. The State Vector
8. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index