Autore	Weston Janet
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Montreal : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2023
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (193 pages)
Disciplina	344.044
Collana	States, people, and the history of social change
Soggetto topico	Mental health law
Soggetto non controllato	British Union of Fascists Dorset Lunacy Office Official Solicitor autonomy capacity care carers chance citizenship common law competence control dementia disability elder abuse exploitation financial abuse friendship gender guardianship homecare imagination incapacity indeterminacy informal care interwar legal history lunacy law mental defect mental health law mental illness microhistory nursing respectability retirement small history social policy socio-legal history subjectivity vulnerability welfare state welfare
ISBN	0-2280-1583-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front Matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Origins -- Turning to the Courts -- Found Incapable -- Providing Care -- Endings -- Notes -- Index
Altri titoli varianti	Looking After Miss Alexander
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910774897303321

Autore	Norton John D.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Calgary, Alberta : , : University of Calgary Press, , [2021]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (682 pages)
Disciplina	161
Collana	BSPS Open
Soggetto topico	Induction (Logic)
Soggetto non controllato	books about philosophy of science books about science books for scientists chance deductive inference deductive logic history of science inductive inference inductive logic inductive support material theory of induction new theory of induction philosophy of science probability study of chance study of probability study of science theory of induction
ISBN	9781773852553 9781773852539
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front Matter -- Contents -- Prolog -- The Material Theory of Induction Stated and Illustrated -- What Powers Inductive Inference? -- Replicability of Experiment -- Analogy -- Epistemic Virtues and Epistemic Values: A Skeptical Critique -- Simplicity as a Surrogate -- Simplicity in Model Selection -- Inference to the Best Explanation: The General Account -- Inference to the Best Explanation: Examples -- Why Not Bayes -- Circularity in the Scoring Rule Vindication of Probabilities -- No Place to Stand: The Incompleteness of All Calculi of Inductive Inference -- Infinite Lottery Machines -- Uncountable Problems -- Indeterministic Physical Systems -- A Quantum Inductive Logic -- Epilog -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910585983303321