Probability since 1800: Interdisciplinary studies of scientific development:Workshop at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research of the University of Bielefeld, September 16-20, 1982 (1983)
Heidelberger, Michael (Editor)
Krüger, Lorenz (Editor)
Rheinwald, Rosemarie (Editor)
Universität Bielefeld
Physical Details: 507 pp.; notes
Description Contents: Daston, Lorraine J.: Rational individuals versus laws of society: From probability to statistics. Porter, Theodore M.: Private chaos, publc order: The 19th-century statistical revolution. Schweber, Silvan S.: Aspects of probabilistic thought in Great Britain during the 19th century: Darwin and Maxwell. Wise, M. Norton: Social statistics in a Gemeinschaft: The idea of statistical causality as developed by Wilhelm Wundt and Karl Lamprecht. Stigler, Stephen M.: The measurement of uncertainty in 19th-century social science. Lécuyer, Bernard-Pierre: Interconnections between biomedical and sociological trends of development of probabilistic thinking under Napoléon, the restorated Bourbon France, and the July Monarchy. Oberschall, Anthony R.: Methodological individualism bridging the gap between individual and society in sociological thinking. Horváth, Robert A.: Probability and epistemology in theoretical economics and economic statistics. Ménard, Claude: Why was there no probabilistic revolution in economic thought? Murray, David J.: Probability in the history of psychology, 1930-1954. Norton, Bernard J.: The transfer of probabilistic methods into psychology. Gigerenzer, Gerd: Interpretations of variability in the history of psychology. Drösler, Jan: Some developments in the inference of accident proneness from the accident record. Coleman, William: Neither empiricism nor probability: The experimental approach. Hodge, M. J. S.: Law, cause, chance, adaptation and species in Darwinian theory in the 1830s, with a postscript on the 1930s. Beatty, John: Chance and natural selection. Jorland, Gérard: Probability, theory of games, and economics: The Petersburg paradox. Knobloch, Eberhard: Emile Borel on probability. Plato, Jan von: Classical physics and determinism. Cartwright, Nancy: Max Born and the reality of quantum probabilities. Costantini, Domenico: Some considerations about the origin of the frequency interpretation of probability. Swijtink, Zeno G.: “True value” and independent measurements in comparative experiments. Kamlah, Andreas: A theory of conceptual representation as a tool for the investigation of changes in the concept of probability. Hacking, Ian: Was there a probabilistic revolution, 1800-1930?
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