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Philosophy of Science II.

Causality, probability, confirmation

lectures, Fri 14:00 - 15:30   Room 208
Language: English

Code: FLN-300:17.1  BMA-LOTD-206  BMA-FILD-401.11  BBN-FIL-401.06 

Bibliography
  • D.H. Mellor: Probability: A Philosophical Introduction, Routledge 2005.
  • E. Szabó László: A nyitott jövő problémája - véletlen, kauzalitás és determinizmus a fizikában, Typotex Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 2002. (A könyv javított digitális kiadása PDF formában letölthető innen.) Valószínűség interpretációja, Kauzalitás, Bayesiánus konfirmáció, stb. Pontosan, a 60-61; 67-86  pontok.
  • L. E. Szabó: What remains of probability?, in D. Dieks, W. Gonzalez, S. Hartmann, M. Weber, F. Stadler and T. Uebel (eds.), The Present Situation in the Philosophy of Science, Springer, forthcoming. [PDF]
  • L. E. Szabó: Objective probability-like things with and without  objective indeterminism, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 38 (2007) 626–634 [Prepirnt (PDF)] (only the Introduction)
  • L. E. Szabó: The Einstein--Podolsky--Rosen Argument and the Bell Inequalities, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2008)
  • Causation, Oxford Readings in Philosophy, E. Sosa and M. Tooley, eds., Oxford University Press (1997)
  • Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, M.H. Salmon et al. (eds.) (Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1992)
  • L. E. Szabó: A Physicalist Interpretation of Probability (Talk presented on the International  Interdisciplinary Workshop on Determinism, Ringberg Castle, Germany, June 4 - 8, 2001)

Credit requirements:
  • MA students must prepare from the complete material of the lectures, including the more formal approaches too.
  • PhD students, in addition, must write a 5-10 page course paper in English, arguing against  one of the main theses I am proposing in the lecture course






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