Eagle, Antony (2005) Randomness is Unpredictability. [Preprint]
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Abstract
The concept of randomness has been unjustly neglected in recent philosophical literature, and when philosophers have thought about it, they have usually acquiesced in views about the concept that are fundamentally flawed. After indicating the ways in which these accounts are flawed, I propose that randomness is to be understood as a special case of the epistemic concept of the unpredictability of a process. This proposal arguably captures the intuitive desiderata for the concept of randomness; at least it should suggest that the commonly accepted accounts cannot be the whole story and more philosophical attention needs to be paid.
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| Additional Information: | Forthcoming in British Journal for the Philosophy of Science | ||||||
| Keywords: | randomness prediction probability unpredictability indeterminism | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics Specific Sciences > Complex Systems General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism |
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| Depositing User: | Antony Eagle | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 02 Jan 2005 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 07 Oct 2010 15:13 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 2134 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics Specific Sciences > Complex Systems General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism |
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| Date: | January 2005 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/2134 |
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