The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance Through Small ProbabilitiesCambridge University Press, 13/09/1998 - 243 من الصفحات This book presents a reliable method for detecting intelligent causes: the design inference.The design inference uncovers intelligent causes by isolating the key trademark of intelligent causes: specified events of small probability. 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. |
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1Introduction | 1 |
2 Overview of the design inference | 36 |
3 Probability Theory | 67 |
4 Complexity theory | 92 |
5 Specification | 136 |
6 Small probability | 175 |
7 Epilogue | 224 |
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