On Science, Inference, Information and Decision-Making

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• I. On Science.
• 1. Some remarks on the philosophy of science.
• 2. Information and decision-making as tools of philosophy of science.
• 3. Method and creativity in science.
• 4. Sociology and models of rational behaviour.
• 5. Mathematical models and social facts.
• 6. Science as a search for information.
• II. On Inference.
• 7. Inference or behaviour?.
• 8. A note on confirmation of statistical hypotheses.
• 9. On some basic patterns of statistical inference.
• 10. A method of deciding between N statistical hypotheses.
• 11. A pragmatic justification of rules of statistical inference.
• 12. On sequential inference.
• 13. Interpretations of the maximum likelihood principle.
• III. On Information and Decision Making.
• 14. Some remarks concerning the criterion of rational decision-making.
• 15. The concept of distribution of goods.
• 16. The value of perfect information.
• 17. Questions and their pragmatic value.
• 18. Two concepts of information.
• 19. Types of information and their role in the methodology of science.
• 20. Information in decision-making. Some logical aspects.
• 21. Decision-making and future research. Some theoretical problems.
• 22. On formal aspects of distributive justice.
• 23. Philosophy and decision-making.
• 24. The concept of unreliable information.
• 25. On defining information.
• 26. Rationality as a value.
• Index of Names.