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Dembski

The Design Inference

Eliminating Chance Through Small Probabilities

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-521-67867-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungstermin: 01.03.2006
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The design inference uncovers intelligent causes by isolating their key trademark: specified events of small probability. Just about anything that happens is highly improbable, but when a highly improbable event is also specified (i.e. conforms to an independently given pattern) undirected natural causes lose their explanatory power. Design inferences can be found in a range of scientific pursuits from forensic science to research into the origins of life to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. This challenging and provocative book shows how incomplete undirected causes are for science and breathes new life into classical design arguments. It will be read with particular interest by philosophers of science and religion, other philosophers concerned with epistemology and logic, probability and complexity theorists, and statisticians.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780521678674
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-521-67867-4
  • Verlag: Cambridge University Press
  • Erscheinungstermin: 01.03.2006
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2006
  • Serie: Cambridge Studies in Probability, Induction and Decision Theory
  • Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
  • Gewicht: 388 g
  • Seiten: 262
  • Format (B x H x T): 152 x 229 x 14 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

William A. Dembski is Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture in Seattle, and Carl F. H. Henry Professor of Theology and Science, Southern Seminary, Louisville.

Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Overview of the design inference; 3. Probability theory; 4. Complexity theory; 5. Specification; 6. Small probability; 7. Epilogue; Notes; References.