Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. contents vii
3. preface and acknowledgments ix
4. part one How We Learn About the World
5. one We Are Scientists 1
6. two The Problem and the Promise of Induction 22
7. three What We Talk About When We Talk About Probability 30
8. four “Our Deceased Friend Mr Bayes” 51
9. five Models and Measurements 79
10. six Physicists and Philosophers 104
11. part two The Randomness of the Universe
12. seven Entropy and Information 121
13. eight Entropy and Matter 137
14. nine Quantum Randomness 148
15. part three Cosmology in a Random Universe
16. ten The Oldest Light 177
17. eleven The Inflationary Universe 208
18. twelve Tension or Concordance? 218
19. thirteen The Limits of Knowledge 232
20. notes 245
21. Index 259