Anthropic bias : observation selection effects in science and philosophy / / Nick Bostrom
| Anthropic bias : observation selection effects in science and philosophy / / Nick Bostrom |
| Autore | Bostrom Nick <1973-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina | 121/.6 |
| Collana | Studies in philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Methodology
Anthropic principle Selectivity (Psychology) Observation (Scientific method) |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-203-95346-0
1-136-71099-X 1-136-71097-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION""; ""Observation selection effects""; ""A brief history of anthropic reasoning""; ""Synopsis of this book""; ""Chapter 2 FINE-TUNING IN COSMOLOGY""; ""Does fine-tuning need explaining?""; ""No “Inverse Gambler�s Fallacy�""; ""Roger White and Phil Dowe�s analysis""; ""Surprising vs. unsurprising improbable events""; ""Modeling observation selection effects: the angel parable""; ""Preliminary conclusions""; ""Chapter 3 ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLES: THE MOTLEY FAMILY""
""The anthropic principle as expressing an observation selection effect""""Anthropic hodgepodge""; ""Freak observers and why earlier formulations are inadequate""; ""The Self-Sampling Assumption""; ""Chapter 4 THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS SUPPORTING THE SELF-SAMPLING ASSUMPTION""; ""The Dungeon gedanken""; ""Two thought experiments by John Leslie""; ""The Incubator gedanken""; ""The reference class problem""; ""Chapter 5 THE SELF-SAMPLING ASSUMPTION IN SCIENCE""; ""SSA in cosmology""; ""SSA in thermodynamics""; ""SSA in evolutionary biology""; ""SSA in traffic analysis""; ""SSA in quantum physics"" ""Summary of the case for SSA""""Chapter 6 THE DOOMSDAY ARGUMENT""; ""Background""; ""Doomsayer Gott""; ""The incorrectness of Gott�s argument""; ""Doomsayer Leslie""; ""The premisses of DA, and the Old evidence problem""; ""Leslie�s views on the reference class problem""; ""Alternative conclusions of DA""; ""Chapter 7 INVALID OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE DOOMSDAY ARGUMENT""; ""Doesn�t the Doomsday argument fail to “target the truth�?""; ""The “baby-paradox�""; ""Isn�t a sample size of one too small?""; ""Couldn�t a Cro-Magnon man have used the Doomsday argument?"" ""We can make the effect go away simply by considering a larger hypothesis space""""Aren�t we necessarily alive now?""; ""Sliding reference of “soon� and “late�?""; ""How could I have been a 16th century human?""; ""Doesn�t your theory presuppose that what happens in causally disconnected regions affects what happens here?""; ""But we know so much more about ourselves than our birth ranks!""; ""The Self-Indication Assumption�Is there safety in numbers?""; ""Chapter 8 OBSERVER-RELATIVE CHANCES IN ANTHROPIC REASONING?""; ""Leslie�s argument, and why it fails"" ""Observer-relative chances: another go""""Discussion: indexical facts�no conflict with physicalism""; ""In conclusion""; ""Appendix: the no-betting results""; ""Chapter 9 PARADOXES OF THE SELF-SAMPLING ASSUMPTION""; ""The Adam & Eve experiments""; ""Analysis of Lazy Adam: predictions and counterfactuals""; ""The UN++ gedanken: reasons and abilities""; ""Quantum Joe: SSA and the Principal Principle""; ""Upshot""; ""Appendix: The Meta-Newcomb problem""; ""Chapter 10 OBSERVATION SELECTION THEORY: A METHODOLOGY FOR ANTHROPIC REASONING""; ""Building blocks, theory constraints and desiderata"" ""The outline of a solution"" |
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Anthropic bias : observation selection effects in science and philosophy / / Nick Bostrom
| Anthropic bias : observation selection effects in science and philosophy / / Nick Bostrom |
| Autore | Bostrom Nick <1973-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina | 121/.6 |
| Collana | Studies in philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Methodology
Anthropic principle Selectivity (Psychology) Observation (Scientific method) |
| ISBN |
0-203-95346-0
1-136-71099-X 1-136-71097-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION""; ""Observation selection effects""; ""A brief history of anthropic reasoning""; ""Synopsis of this book""; ""Chapter 2 FINE-TUNING IN COSMOLOGY""; ""Does fine-tuning need explaining?""; ""No “Inverse Gambler�s Fallacy�""; ""Roger White and Phil Dowe�s analysis""; ""Surprising vs. unsurprising improbable events""; ""Modeling observation selection effects: the angel parable""; ""Preliminary conclusions""; ""Chapter 3 ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLES: THE MOTLEY FAMILY""
""The anthropic principle as expressing an observation selection effect""""Anthropic hodgepodge""; ""Freak observers and why earlier formulations are inadequate""; ""The Self-Sampling Assumption""; ""Chapter 4 THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS SUPPORTING THE SELF-SAMPLING ASSUMPTION""; ""The Dungeon gedanken""; ""Two thought experiments by John Leslie""; ""The Incubator gedanken""; ""The reference class problem""; ""Chapter 5 THE SELF-SAMPLING ASSUMPTION IN SCIENCE""; ""SSA in cosmology""; ""SSA in thermodynamics""; ""SSA in evolutionary biology""; ""SSA in traffic analysis""; ""SSA in quantum physics"" ""Summary of the case for SSA""""Chapter 6 THE DOOMSDAY ARGUMENT""; ""Background""; ""Doomsayer Gott""; ""The incorrectness of Gott�s argument""; ""Doomsayer Leslie""; ""The premisses of DA, and the Old evidence problem""; ""Leslie�s views on the reference class problem""; ""Alternative conclusions of DA""; ""Chapter 7 INVALID OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE DOOMSDAY ARGUMENT""; ""Doesn�t the Doomsday argument fail to “target the truth�?""; ""The “baby-paradox�""; ""Isn�t a sample size of one too small?""; ""Couldn�t a Cro-Magnon man have used the Doomsday argument?"" ""We can make the effect go away simply by considering a larger hypothesis space""""Aren�t we necessarily alive now?""; ""Sliding reference of “soon� and “late�?""; ""How could I have been a 16th century human?""; ""Doesn�t your theory presuppose that what happens in causally disconnected regions affects what happens here?""; ""But we know so much more about ourselves than our birth ranks!""; ""The Self-Indication Assumption�Is there safety in numbers?""; ""Chapter 8 OBSERVER-RELATIVE CHANCES IN ANTHROPIC REASONING?""; ""Leslie�s argument, and why it fails"" ""Observer-relative chances: another go""""Discussion: indexical facts�no conflict with physicalism""; ""In conclusion""; ""Appendix: the no-betting results""; ""Chapter 9 PARADOXES OF THE SELF-SAMPLING ASSUMPTION""; ""The Adam & Eve experiments""; ""Analysis of Lazy Adam: predictions and counterfactuals""; ""The UN++ gedanken: reasons and abilities""; ""Quantum Joe: SSA and the Principal Principle""; ""Upshot""; ""Appendix: The Meta-Newcomb problem""; ""Chapter 10 OBSERVATION SELECTION THEORY: A METHODOLOGY FOR ANTHROPIC REASONING""; ""Building blocks, theory constraints and desiderata"" ""The outline of a solution"" |
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Anthropic bias : observation selection effects in science and philosophy / / Nick Bostrom
| Anthropic bias : observation selection effects in science and philosophy / / Nick Bostrom |
| Autore | Bostrom Nick <1973-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina | 121/.6 |
| Collana | Studies in philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Methodology
Anthropic principle Selectivity (Psychology) Observation (Scientific method) |
| ISBN |
0-203-95346-0
1-136-71099-X 1-136-71097-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION""; ""Observation selection effects""; ""A brief history of anthropic reasoning""; ""Synopsis of this book""; ""Chapter 2 FINE-TUNING IN COSMOLOGY""; ""Does fine-tuning need explaining?""; ""No “Inverse Gambler�s Fallacy�""; ""Roger White and Phil Dowe�s analysis""; ""Surprising vs. unsurprising improbable events""; ""Modeling observation selection effects: the angel parable""; ""Preliminary conclusions""; ""Chapter 3 ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLES: THE MOTLEY FAMILY""
""The anthropic principle as expressing an observation selection effect""""Anthropic hodgepodge""; ""Freak observers and why earlier formulations are inadequate""; ""The Self-Sampling Assumption""; ""Chapter 4 THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS SUPPORTING THE SELF-SAMPLING ASSUMPTION""; ""The Dungeon gedanken""; ""Two thought experiments by John Leslie""; ""The Incubator gedanken""; ""The reference class problem""; ""Chapter 5 THE SELF-SAMPLING ASSUMPTION IN SCIENCE""; ""SSA in cosmology""; ""SSA in thermodynamics""; ""SSA in evolutionary biology""; ""SSA in traffic analysis""; ""SSA in quantum physics"" ""Summary of the case for SSA""""Chapter 6 THE DOOMSDAY ARGUMENT""; ""Background""; ""Doomsayer Gott""; ""The incorrectness of Gott�s argument""; ""Doomsayer Leslie""; ""The premisses of DA, and the Old evidence problem""; ""Leslie�s views on the reference class problem""; ""Alternative conclusions of DA""; ""Chapter 7 INVALID OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE DOOMSDAY ARGUMENT""; ""Doesn�t the Doomsday argument fail to “target the truth�?""; ""The “baby-paradox�""; ""Isn�t a sample size of one too small?""; ""Couldn�t a Cro-Magnon man have used the Doomsday argument?"" ""We can make the effect go away simply by considering a larger hypothesis space""""Aren�t we necessarily alive now?""; ""Sliding reference of “soon� and “late�?""; ""How could I have been a 16th century human?""; ""Doesn�t your theory presuppose that what happens in causally disconnected regions affects what happens here?""; ""But we know so much more about ourselves than our birth ranks!""; ""The Self-Indication Assumption�Is there safety in numbers?""; ""Chapter 8 OBSERVER-RELATIVE CHANCES IN ANTHROPIC REASONING?""; ""Leslie�s argument, and why it fails"" ""Observer-relative chances: another go""""Discussion: indexical facts�no conflict with physicalism""; ""In conclusion""; ""Appendix: the no-betting results""; ""Chapter 9 PARADOXES OF THE SELF-SAMPLING ASSUMPTION""; ""The Adam & Eve experiments""; ""Analysis of Lazy Adam: predictions and counterfactuals""; ""The UN++ gedanken: reasons and abilities""; ""Quantum Joe: SSA and the Principal Principle""; ""Upshot""; ""Appendix: The Meta-Newcomb problem""; ""Chapter 10 OBSERVATION SELECTION THEORY: A METHODOLOGY FOR ANTHROPIC REASONING""; ""Building blocks, theory constraints and desiderata"" ""The outline of a solution"" |
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Attention in vision : perception, communication, and action / / A.H.C. van der Heijden
| Attention in vision : perception, communication, and action / / A.H.C. van der Heijden |
| Autore | Heijden A. H. C. van der. |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Psychology Press, , 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | xiii, 378 p |
| Disciplina | 152.14 |
| Soggetto topico |
Visual perception
Selectivity (Psychology) Attention |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-203-62213-8
1-135-42492-6 1-280-07793-X 0-203-49152-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Prologue. Part 1: Considerations. The Problem and the Approach. Types of Tasks and Instructions. The Internal Representation of the Instruction. Part 2: Report Tasks. An Intentional Machine. Paradigms with Accuracy as the Dependent Variable. Paradigms with Latency as the Dependent Variable. Part 3: Act Tasks. Towards an Effective Visual Position. The Cognitive Control of Saccadic Eye Movements. Act Tasks and Report Tasks. Epilogue. |
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Attention in vision : perception, communication, and action / / A.H.C. van der Heijden
| Attention in vision : perception, communication, and action / / A.H.C. van der Heijden |
| Autore | Heijden A. H. C. van der. |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Psychology Press, , 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | xiii, 378 p |
| Disciplina | 152.14 |
| Soggetto topico |
Visual perception
Selectivity (Psychology) Attention |
| ISBN |
1-135-42491-8
0-203-62213-8 1-135-42492-6 1-280-07793-X 0-203-49152-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Prologue. Part 1: Considerations. The Problem and the Approach. Types of Tasks and Instructions. The Internal Representation of the Instruction. Part 2: Report Tasks. An Intentional Machine. Paradigms with Accuracy as the Dependent Variable. Paradigms with Latency as the Dependent Variable. Part 3: Act Tasks. Towards an Effective Visual Position. The Cognitive Control of Saccadic Eye Movements. Act Tasks and Report Tasks. Epilogue. |
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Attention in vision : perception, communication, and action / A.H.C. van der Heijden
| Attention in vision : perception, communication, and action / A.H.C. van der Heijden |
| Autore | Heijden, A. H. C. van der |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hove, East Sussex [England] : Psychology Press, c2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | xiii, 392 p. : ill. ; 25 cm |
| Disciplina | 152.14 |
| Soggetto topico |
Visual perception
Selectivity (Psychology) Attention |
| ISBN | 9780415646000 (pbk.) |
| Classificazione |
LC BF241
617.7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNISALENTO-991002008379707536 |
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| Hove, East Sussex [England] : Psychology Press, c2004 | ||
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Evidence-based decision-making : how to leverage available data & avoid cognitive biases / / Andrew D. Banasiewicz
| Evidence-based decision-making : how to leverage available data & avoid cognitive biases / / Andrew D. Banasiewicz |
| Autore | Banasiewicz Andrew D. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (270 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
| Disciplina | 153.83 |
| Soggetto topico |
Decision making
Cognition Selectivity (Psychology) |
| ISBN |
9781351050067
9781351050074 1351050052 1351050079 1351050060 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; PART I: Decision-Making Challenges; 1 Subjective Evaluations; Thinking and Games; Mind vs. Machine; Learning and Remembering; The Decision-Making Brain; 2 Non-Generalizable Objectivity; Familiar Clues; Anecdotal Evidence; Nonrepresentative Samples; 3 Mass Analytics; Digitization of Life; Data as the New Normal; Data in Organizations; The Analytics Industry; PART II: Evidence-Based Practice; 4 Evidence-Based Movement; The Practice and Science of Management; Evidence-Based Practice; The Road Ahead
5 The Essence of EvidenceWhat is Evidence?; Empirical Evidence; Experiential Evidence; Internalizing Evidence; PART III: The Empirical & Experiential Evidence Framework; 6 Probabilistic Thinking; Decision Uncertainty; Evidence Pooling; Cross-Type Amalgamation; 7 The 3E Framework; Organizational Decision-Making; The Empirical & Experiential Evidence Framework; Insight Extraction; Believability of Evidence; 8 Sourcing & Assessing: Operational Data; Data, Research, and Decision-Making; Probabilistic Analyses of Organizational Data; Operational Data and Databases Getting Started with Operational DataExploring Operational Data; Exploratory Data Analysis; Confirmatory Data Analysis; 9 Sourcing & Assessing: Research, Norms, and Judgment; Thematic Analyses of Empirical Research; Summarizing Norms & Standards; Pooling Expert Judgment; PART IV: Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Organizations; 10 Internal Design & Dynamics; Organizations as Human Collectives; Business Organizations; Organizations and Decision-Making; The 3E Framework & Organizational Dynamics; 11 External Forces & Influences; External Forces; Non-Systematic Influences Appendix A: Cognitive Biases Appendix B: Inter-Expert Reliability; Author Biography; Index |
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The neuroscience of attention : attentional control and selection
| The neuroscience of attention : attentional control and selection |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource : ill |
| Disciplina | 153.7/33 |
| Soggetto topico |
Attention
Selectivity (Psychology) Cognitive neuroscience Visual perception Mental Processes Arousal Perception Biological Science Disciplines Psychophysiology Natural Science Disciplines Psychology Occupations Visual Perception Neurosciences Cognition Social Sciences |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Attentional selection for locations, features, and objects in vision / Jens-Max Hopf ... [et al.] -- Involuntary attention / Joseph B. Hopfinger and Emily L. Parks -- Thalamic control of visual attention / Sabine Kastner, Yuri B. Saalmann, and Keith A. Schneider -- Visual attention : computational problems, strategies, and mechanisms / John K. Tsotsos ... [et al.] -- Orienting to the environment : separate contributons of dorsal and ventral frontoparietal attention networks / Carlo Sestieri, Gordon L. Shulman, and Maurizio Corbetta -- Midbrain and forebrain systems for bottom-up control of spatial attention / Eric I. Knudsen -- Attention and action in the frontal eye field / Katherine M. Armstrong ... [et al.] -- Attention and the parietal lobe / Michael E. Goldberg ... [et al.] -- A stage theory of attention and action / Jeffrey D. Schall and Geoffrey E. Woodman -- Top-down biases in visual short-term memory / Mark G. Stokes and Anna C. Nobre -- Conflict control loop theory of cognitive control / Marie K. Krug and Cameron S. Carter -- Emotional influences on visuospatial attention / Harlan M. Fichtenholtz and Kevin S. LaBar. |
| Altri titoli varianti |
Neuroscience of Attention, The
neuroscience of attention |
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| New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012 | ||
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Suspensions of perception [[electronic resource] ] : attention, spectacle, and modern culture / / Jonathan Crary
| Suspensions of perception [[electronic resource] ] : attention, spectacle, and modern culture / / Jonathan Crary |
| Autore | Crary Jonathan |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (404 p.) |
| Disciplina | 153.7 |
| Collana | October Books |
| Soggetto topico |
Selectivity (Psychology)
Perception Attention Subjectivity |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
9786612100215
1-282-10021-1 0-262-27095-1 0-585-27082-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ONE Modernity and the Problem of Attention; TWO 1879: Unbinding Vision; THREE 1888: Illuminations of Disenchantment; FOUR 1900: Reinventing Synthesis; EPILOGUE 1907: Spellbound in Rome; Bibliography; Illustration Credits; Index |
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Suspensions of perception : attention, spectacle, and modern culture / / Jonathan Crary
| Suspensions of perception : attention, spectacle, and modern culture / / Jonathan Crary |
| Autore | Crary Jonathan |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (404 p.) |
| Disciplina | 153.7 |
| Collana | October Books |
| Soggetto topico |
Selectivity (Psychology)
Perception Attention Subjectivity |
| Soggetto non controllato | ARTS/General |
| ISBN |
9786612100215
1-282-10021-1 0-262-27095-1 0-585-27082-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ONE Modernity and the Problem of Attention; TWO 1879: Unbinding Vision; THREE 1888: Illuminations of Disenchantment; FOUR 1900: Reinventing Synthesis; EPILOGUE 1907: Spellbound in Rome; Bibliography; Illustration Credits; Index |
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