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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796293103321

Autore

De Scheemaekere Xavier

Titolo

Fondements philosophiques du concept de probabilité / / Xavier De Scheemaekere

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bruxelles ; ; Fernelmont : , : E.M.E., , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

2-8066-3417-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Collana

Logiques et systèmes

Disciplina

519.2

Soggetti

Probabilities - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Dans la collection « Logiques et Systèmes »; 1. Introduction; La philosophie des probabilités; Les axiomes du calcul des probabilités; Méthodologie et structure; 2. La théorie classique; De Pascal à Laplace; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; 2.3 Le principe d'équipossibilité; 3. La théorie logique; Une relation a priori; Le principe d'indifférence; La nature de l'incertitude sous-jacente; Principe d'indifférence et mathématiques; 4. La théorie subjective; Emile Borel; Frank Plumpton Ramsey; Bruno de Finetti; 5. La théorie fréquentielle; Robert Leslie Ellis et John Venn; Richard von Mises

Fréquences finies et fréquences limitesLes mathématiques et le concret; 6. La théorie de la propension; Charles Sanders Peirce; Karl Raimund Popper; Propension et probabilité : critiques; 7. Problèmes métaphysiques; Probabilité et possibilité; Probabilité et nécessité; Probabilité et modalité; 8. Axiomatisation et probabilité; Le théorème de Bernoulli et son usage inverse; L'axiomatisation de Kolmogorov; Le rôle des mathématiques; 9. Conclusion; Appendice; La probabilité conditionnelle et le théorème de Bayes; La probabilité conditionnelle; Le théorème de Bayes; Bibliographie

Sommario/riassunto

La probabilité a un aspect à la fois mathématique et philosophique. Le contraste entre les deux est saisissant. Du point de vue mathématique, il existe un consensus presque complet sur la théorie des probabilités, c'est-à-dire, sur les axiomes et sur les théorèmes qui en découlent. Par contre, du point de vue philosophique, on recense quatre théories



majeures qui divergent fondamentalement sur la question du fondement du concept de probabilité : la théorie logique, la théorie subjective, la théorie fréquentielle et la théorie de la propension.Ce livre est une introduction à la philosophie des

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910253350403321

Autore

Sooryamoorthy R

Titolo

Sociology in South Africa : Colonial, Apartheid and Democratic Forms / / by R. Sooryamoorthy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

9783319403250

3319403257

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVI, 156 p. 1 illus.)

Collana

Sociology Transformed, , 2947-5031

Disciplina

301

Soggetti

Sociology

Educational sociology

Africa - Politics and government

Education, Higher

Education and state

Sociology of Education

African Politics

Higher Education

Education Policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. South African Sociology in Context -- Chapter 2. The Beginning: Sociology in Colonial Times -- Chapter 3. In Apartheid Times, 1948-1993 -- Chapter 4. Sociology in Democratic South Africa, 1994-2015 -- Chapter 5. Sociological Research: Contemporary Characteristics -- Chapter 6. Current and Future Prospects.

Sommario/riassunto

'South Africa is a unique country redolent of a multitude of social



challenges and tremulous with future possibilities in which local sociology is inevitably intertwined with its societal trajectory. R. Sooryamoorthy has assembled the story of South African sociology drawing extensively on the already published literature together with interesting and original scientometric data.' -Charles Crothers, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand This book is the first comprehensive account of the history and current state of South African sociology. Providing a holistic picture of the subject both as it is taught in universities and as a field of research, it reveals the trajectories of a discipline in a challenging socio-political context. With the support of historical and scientometric data, it demonstrates how the changing political situation, from colonialism to apartheid to democracy, has influenced the nature, direction and foci ofsociological research in the country. The author shows how, during the apartheid era, sociology was professionally fragmented and divided along language and race lines. It was, however, able to flourish with the advent of democracy in 1994 and has become a unique academic movement. This insightful work will appeal to students and scholars of the social sciences, and all those interested in the history and society of South Africa. R. Sooryamoorthy is Professor of Sociology at the University of KwaZulu- Natal, South Africa. He has taught at the Acharya Nagarjuna University and Loyola College of Social Sciences (both in India), the University of Calgary (Canada), and the Lulea University of Technology (Sweden). His publications include Science in Participatory Development (co-author), NGOs in India: A Cross-sectional Study (co-author) and Transforming Science in South Africa.