Lorenz Kruger’s scientific contributions

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Publications (3)


The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life.
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June 1990

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Peter Guttorp

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Lorenz Kruger


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... See Lyon (2014) for an exposition. 5 See Daston (1995), Gigerenzer et al. (1989), Hacking (1975). 6 In Suárez (2013), I took the bother to read carefully through Molière's delightful play Le Malade Imaginaire (Molière, 1673, see particularly the third interlude) and found the actual objection to be quite different. ...

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The Possibilities in Propensities
The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life.
  • Citing Article
  • June 1990

... As these procedures transform raw measurement scores into probability density distributions ("data"), it is revealed as a "naïve fantasy that data have an immediate relation to phenomena of the world […], that they are the facts of the world directly speaking to us […]" (Longino, 2020, p. 391). Instead, when data inform hypothesisrelated decisions, the "right measure of evidential support generally has a probabilistic character" (Diez, 2011, p. 105; see Krüger et al., 1987). ...

The Probabilistic Revolution:
  • Citing Article
  • September 1988