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The author wishes to thank the following:
- the Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research Council, in the UK, for
financial support,
- Sally
Hatton, for
introducing him to the critiques of positivism and alternative
epistemologies in the new social movements, of which standpoint
epistemology is one, for many helpful discussions, and for
recommending Social Research [27] and
Principles of Dynamics [26], and providing
copies thereof,
- Steve Julian, for suggesting the division of scientific
advancement into three paths of increasing size, increasing energy,
and increasing complexity, and for recommending Zen and the
Art of Motorcycle Maintenance [55],
? [10], and the works of Anderson
[1,2,3],
- David
MacKay, for tuition
in Bayesian statistics, for pointing out a weakness in the
definition of ``likelihood'' in this report, and for many helpful
discussions,
- Jairo Tocancipá-Falla, for many helpful discussions, and for
recommending From Physics to Anthropology and Back Again
[64],
- Suzanne Zeedyk, for giving the lecture [76],
in a discussion following which he first heard of the work of
Harding [28,29] and of the concept
of strong objectivity,
- Nancy
Lane, for making the
aforementioned post-lecture comment concerning strong objectivity,
- Marilyn Strathern, for recommending The Relation
[70], and providing a copy thereof,
- Ramin Nakisa,
for identifying Cournot's [11] system of
hypothesis testing as a frequentist inference method, and for
recommending Scientific Reasoning [34],
- Sam
Gardiner,
for recommending ``Giant magnetoresistance and microstructural
characteristics of epitaxial
-
and
-
granular thin
films,'' [74], ``Correlation between dynamic
magnetic hysteresis loops and nanoscale roughness of ultrathin
films'' [37], and ``Correlation between crystalline
structure and soft magnetic properties in sputtered sendust films''
[15], and providing copies thereof,
- Thanos Mitrelias, the author's laboratory colleague when the
bulk of this work was undertaken, for immense indulgence and
patience while the author took research time to work on this
project,
- Klaus Peter Kopper, the author's laboratory colleague when the
bulk of this work was undertaken, for immense indulgence and
patience while the author took research time to work on this
project,
- Louise
Madden,
for pointing out that many in the new social movements are
suspicious of quantitative methods, and therefore alerting him to
the need to defend the quantitative nature of Bayesian statistics,
as very different from the kind of quantitative methods that
created the suspicion,
- Glenn Richer, for pointing out a need for greater clarity in the
remarks, in this report, about the ideological associations of the
Shannon entropy,
- Claude
Demangeat,
for pointing out that the derivation of statistical properties from
quantum mechanics, which can be used as effective postulates, is as
much a part of the first-principles tradition as of the
emergent-phenomena tradition, and
- the Natural Environment
Research Council, in the UK, for
financial support.
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Daniel Christopher Hatton
2004-12-01