Reichenbach's transcendental probability

DOI10.1007/S10670-014-9610-4zbMATH Open1346.03032arXiv1306.4188OpenAlexW2064263491MaRDI QIDQ320148FDOQ320148

Authors: Fedde Benedictus, Dennis Dieks 

Publication date: 6 October 2016

Published in: Erkenntnis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The aim of this article is twofold. First, we shall review and analyse the Neo-Kantian justification for the application of probabilistic concepts in physics that was defended by Hans Reichenbach early in his career, notably in his dissertation of 1916. At first sight this Kantian approach seems to contrast sharply with Reichenbach's later logical positivist, frequentist viewpoint. But, and this is our second goal, we shall attempt to show that there is an underlying continuity in Reichenbach's thought: typical features of his early Kantian conceptions can still be recognized in his later work.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.4188

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of mathematical logic and foundations (03-03) Logic in the philosophy of science (03A10) Axioms; other general questions in probability (60A05)

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