Author(s): Maria Carla Galavotti
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 368
Preliminaries......Page 1
TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 6
From Theory to Experiment and Back Again......Page 12
Naïve Probability......Page 54
From Theory to Experiments and Back Again... and Back Again.........Page 68
Emergence and Future of Experimental Economics......Page 74
Rationality in Experimental Economics......Page 82
Experiments, Heuristics and Social Diversity......Page 96
Where Do New Ideas Come From?......Page 110
Comments on Gerd Gigerenzer......Page 152
On the Concept of Discovery.......Page 164
Styles of Experimentation......Page 170
On French Concepts and Objects.......Page 198
Some Comments on “Styles of Experimentation......Page 210
Improving “Styles of Experimentation”.......Page 214
Experiments and Thought Experiments in Natural Science......Page 220
The Advantage of Theft over Honest Toil.......Page 238
Thinking About Thought Experiments in Physics......Page 248
The Dynamics of Thought Experiments.......Page 254
An Attempt at a Philosophy of Experiment......Page 270
An Attempt at a Philosophy of Experimental error......Page 296
O Happy Error. A Comment on Giora Hon......Page 306
Bayesian Evidence......Page 312
On Bayesian Logic.......Page 332
On Bayesian Induction (and Pythagoric Arthmetic)......Page 338
Probability and Logic......Page 344
Index of Names......Page 350
