Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: donald gillies

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  • CAUSALITY, PROBABILITY, AND MEDICINE
    DONALD GILLIES
    Why is understanding causation so important in philosophy and the sciences? Should causation be defined in terms of probability? Whilst causation plays a major role in theories and concepts of medicine, little attempt has been made to connect causation and probability with medicine itself. Causality, Probability, and Medicine is one of the first books to apply philosophical rea...

    $1,160.00

  • EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND MICHEL FOUCAULT
    DONALD GILLIES
    Drawing from the ideas of Michel Foucault, this book offers a critical examination of today‘s dominant discourse of educational leadership. Foucault‘s understanding of critique is as apermanent ethos in which humans explore the nature of their existence but at the same time query the limits imposed upon them, and probe opportunities for increasi ...

    $1,540.00

  • FREGE, DEDEKIND, AND PEANO ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF ARITHMETIC (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    DONALD GILLIES
    First published in 1982, this reissue contains a critical exposition of the views of Frege, Dedekind and Peano on the foundations of arithmetic. The last quarter of the 19th century witnessed a remarkable growth of interest in the foundations of arithmetic. This work analyses both the reasons for this growth of interest within both mathematics and philosophy and the ways in whi...

    $1,560.00

  • PHILOSOPHICAL THEORIES OF PROBABILITY
    DONALD GILLIES
    The Twentieth Century has seen a dramatic rise in the use of probability and statistics in almost all fields of research. This has stimulated many new philosophical ideas on probability. Philosophical Theories of Probability is the first book to present a clear, comprehensive and systematic account of these various theories and to explain how they relate to one another. Gillies...

    $1,240.00

  • AN OBJECTIVE THEORY OF PROBABILITY (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    DONALD GILLIES
    This reissue of D. A. Gillies highly influential work, first published in 1973, is a philosophical theory of probability which seeks to develop von Mises’ views on the subject. In agreement with von Mises, the author regards probability theory as a mathematical science like mechanics or electrodynamics, and probability as an objective, measurable concept like force, mass or cha...

    $1,560.00