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* Ian Hacking Representing and Intervening, Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1983.
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However, Ian Hacking noted that traditional Dutch book arguments did not specify Bayesian updating: they left open the possibility that non-Bayesian updating rules could avoid Dutch books.
Ian Hacking has also argued that much of what is called social constructionism of science in contemporary times is actually motivated by an unstated nominalist metaphysical view.
" Bayesian probability provides a rational method for updating beliefs ; however, non-Bayesian updating rules are compatible with rationality, according to Ian Hacking and Bas van Fraassen.
Ian Hacking noted that traditional " Dutch book " arguments did not specify Bayesian updating: they left open the possibility that non-Bayesian updating rules could avoid Dutch books.
The inverse gambler's fallacy, named by philosopher Ian Hacking, is a formal fallacy of Bayesian inference which is an inverse of the better known gambler's fallacy.
The book metaphor could also be applied in the following passage, by the contemporary philosopher of science Ian Hacking:
Ian Hacking, having examined a wide range of books and articles with titles of the form " The social construction of X " or " Constructing X ", argues that when something is said to be " socially constructed ", this is shorthand for at least the following two claims:
Ian Hacking, Canadian philosopher of science, insists, " the notion that everything is socially constructed has been going the rounds.
Ian Hacking, CC, FRSC, FBA ( born February 18, 1936 ) is a Canadian philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of science.
Martin quotes Ian Hacking as saying " few of us would pay even $ 25 to enter such a game " and says most commentators would agree.
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* Ian Farrell & Morten Ebbe Juul Nielsen, Legal Philosophy: 5 Questions, New York: Automatic Press / VIP, April 2007:
Other studies of the James Bond phenomenon include: Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report ( 1964 ), by O. F. Snelling ( revised, re-titled, and re-published on-line, in 2007, as Double-O Seven: James Bond Under the Microscope ), an analysis of Bond ’ s literary predecessors, his image, women, adversaries, and future ; Ian Fleming: The Spy Who Came In with the Gold ( 1965 ), by Henry A. Zeiger, a biography of Fleming as a commercial writer ; The Politics of James Bond: From Fleming ’ s Novels to the Big Screen ( 2001 ), by historian Jeremy Black, an analysis of the cultural politics of the Bond books and films ; James Bond and Philosophy: Questions Are Forever ( 2006 ), edited by James B.
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Institutions interested in the intersection between science and religion include the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science, the Ian Ramsey Centre, and the Faraday Institute.
In March 1956 Ian Fleming and his friend Ivar Bryce accompanied Robert Cushman Murphy ( with the American Museum of Natural History ) and Arthur Vernay ( with the Flamingo Protection Society ) on a trip to Great Inagua in the south of The Bahamas to a flamingo colony.
These initial tests were inconclusive, and ape conservation expert Ian Redmond told the BBC that there was similarity between the cuticle pattern of these hairs and specimens collected by Edmund Hillary during Himalayan expeditions in the 1950s and donated to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and announced planned DNA analysis.
* Ian Henderson ' There are French Novels and there are French Novels ': Charles Reade and the ' Other ' Sources of Marcus Clarke's His Natural Life JASAL 1 ( 2002 )
* Phillip Cribb & Ian Butterfield: The Genus Pleione " ( Second Edition 1999 ) Natural History Publications in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
It was criticised by the government's own ecological adviser, Dr Ian Bainbridge, the government body Scottish Natural Heritage and organisations including the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
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Ian Barbour in his book Issues in Science and Religion ( 1966 ), p. 133, cites Arthur Eddington's The Nature of the Physical World ( 1928 ) for a text that argues The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principles provides a scientific basis for " the defense of the idea of human freedom " and his Science and the Unseen World ( 1929 ) for support of philosophical idealism " the thesis that reality is basically mental ".
See Ian Hacking's The Emergence of Probability and James Franklin's The Science of Conjecture for histories of the early development of the very concept of mathematical probability.
Writing for Science Fiction Studies in March 1975, Ian Watson proposed the following chronology for the first six novels.
And Still We Evolve, A Handbook on the History of Modern Science, Ian Johnston of Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, BC.
Survivors, featuring interviews with actors Lucy Fleming, Ian McCulloch and Carolyn Seymour, director Pennant Roberts and scriptwriter Martin Worth, was broadcast on 5 December 2006, as part of the channel's Science Fiction Britannia series.
Cohen and fellow University of Warwick researcher Ian Stewart, a mathematician, collaborated with Terry Pratchett to write three Science of Discworld books, which accompany his Discworld series.
Ian Taylor has become chairman of two companies, on the board or advisory board of others, is on the Government's Science & Technology Research Council, on an ESA Advisory Board and is a Trustee of the Centre of the Cell.
Ian Gibson was born in Dumfries, Scotland and was educated locally at the Dumfries Academy, before attending the University of Edinburgh where he acquired a Bachelor of Science degree in Genetics and a doctorate.
co-authored and partly based on ideas created by Terry Pratchett, and in The Collapse of Chaos ( 1994 ) and Figments of Reality ( 1997 ), both by the other two co-authors of The Science of Discworld, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen.
The Science of Discworld II: The Globe is a 2002 book written by the novelist Terry Pratchett and the popular science writers Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen.
The Science of Discworld is a 1999 book by novelist Terry Pratchett and popular science writers Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen.
* Winner: " The Summer Isles ", Ian R. MacLeod ( Asimov's Science Fiction, October / November 1998 )
* The name and structure of Ian McDonald's science fiction novella " The Days of Solomon Gursky " ( Asimov's Science Fiction June 1998, reprinted in Mike Ashley's 2006 anthology The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction ) is based on the nursery rhyme.
: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life ") is a book about xenobiology by biologist Jack Cohen and mathematician Ian Stewart.
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