Induction, Physics and Ethics

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Section I/Induction and Probability.
• Initial Probabilities: A Prerequisite for any Valid Induction.
• Discussion of Bruno de Finetti’s Paper ‘Initial Probabilities: A Prerequisite for any Valid Induction’.
• Linguistically Invariant Inductive Logic.
• Comments on ‘Linguistically Invariant Inductive Logic’ by Ian Hacking.
• Logical Probability, Mathematical Statistics, and the Problem of Induction.
• Statistics, Induction, and Lawlikeness: Comments on Dr. Vetter’s Paper.
• Section II / Foundations of Physics.
• New Approach to Interpretation Problems of General Relativity by Means of the Splitting-Up-Formalism of Space-Time.
• Comments on Professor Schmutzer’s Paper.
• Simultaneity by Slow Clock Transport in the Special Theory of Relativity.
• Foundations of Quantum Theory; Statistical Interpretation (Introductory talk).
• Comments on H. J. Groenewold ‘Foundations of Quantum Theory’.
• Intertheory Relations.
• Problems Concerning Intertheory Relations.
• Section III / Science and Ethics: The Moral Responsibility of the Scientist.
• The Moral Responsibility of the Scientist.
• Science and Responsibility.
• The Relation of Modern Scientific Conceptions to the Human Image.
• Science and Ethics.
• Scientists and Ethics — A Case History.
• Modern Science and Social Responsibility.
• Index of Names.