Patrick Maher – författare

This book is a major contribution to decision theory, focusing on the question of when it is rational to accept scientific theories. The author examines both Bayesian decision theory and confirmation theory, refining and elaborating the views of Ramsey and Savage. He argues that the most solid foundation for confirmation theory is to be found in decision theory, and he provides a decision-theoretic derivation of principles for how many probabilities should be revised over time. Professor Maher defines a notion of accepting a hypothesis, and then shows that it is not reducible to probability and that it is needed to deal with some important questions in the philosophy of science. A Bayesian decision-theoretic account of rational acceptance is provided together with a proof of the foundations for this theory. A final chapter shows how this account can be used to cast light on such vexed issues as verisimilitude and scientific realism.

This book is a major contribution to decision theory, focusing on the question of when it is rational to accept scientific theories. The author examines both Bayesian decision theory and confirmation theory, refining and elaborating the views of Ramsey and Savage. He argues that the most solid foundation for confirmation theory is to be found in decision theory, and he provides a decision-theoretic derivation of principles for how many probabilities should be revised over time. Professor Maher defines a notion of accepting a hypothesis, and then shows that it is not reducible to probability and that it is needed to deal with some important questions in the philosophy of science. A Bayesian decision-theoretic account of rational acceptance is provided together with a proof of the foundations for this theory. A final chapter shows how this account can be used to cast light on such vexed issues as verisimilitude and scientific realism.

Arthur Templar and his close-knit group of psychic twelve year olds must defeat a gang of evil Nibiruan secret agents attempting to mine 'the core'- a quantum power source. The gang and their leader deceive the children with one challenge after another.The children must grow and develop their psychic abilities while they try to protect Elderberry Valley and the star people who live there.

Arthur Templar and the Secret Codex is set in the Elderberry Academy for Special Education.The only Eternal Library in the world is at the Academy. It has disappeared and this library matters. It contains destiny scrolls for Arthur and his friends.The stakes are high as Arthur Templar, a young timethreader with extraordinary psychic powers, and psychic friends attempt to unravel the dark secrets of the missing library.The danger increases as they get closer to uncovering the shape-shifting evil lurking in the corridors and shadows.Arthur and his friends embark on a journey of self-discovery, wisdom and courage in their search for the Eternal Library of the Psychic Academy.

High-reliability management is a set of practices and competencies that help Organisations operating in high-hazard environments maintain a low risk of accidents. These Organisations recognise the inherent risks associated with their operations and actively work to minimise them, even in complex and challenging circumstances. Clear and understandable core management competencies are needed to prevent 'preventable' accidents.Dr Maher's research provides valuable insights into the complexities of high-reliability management. His emphasis on managerial competencies, the cultivation of a "e;high-reliability habitus,"e; and the need for robust compliance regimes offers a practical framework for improving safety in organisations operating in high-risk environments.This is a compelling and readable book about managing risks in organisational systems.

A man was trapped in impossible conditions. Another man went into the darkness to save him, again and again. A community kept vigil. Hope survived when logic said it shouldn't. And ordinary people rose to meet extraordinary circumstances with courage that still resonates more than a century later.

Three former Special Forces operatives have built quiet lives operating a commuter airline—anchored by family, a little romance and the hope that old battles would never find them again.But the squad is forced back into a world of deception and ruthless operations. Old scars are reopened and old skills learned in the fire of close combat are called on when an Interpol field operations unit uncovers a multilayered criminal conspiracy stretching from Perth to the capitals of the East and Europe.A mask operation reveals deep ties of brotherhood that force the old Special Forces team to confront a ruthless enemy who operates in the dark.

A bodyA mountain.A town full of questions.A week that changes everything.A Pleiadian ship with souls in transition."e;They believe they can trap souls in transition-between death and rebirth-and extract their energy to extend their own lives."e;Ancient intergalactic and old Pleiadian secrets brush against the everyday life of the Star People who live in Elderberry Village . A body is discovered near Thunder Mountain and a group of young psychics steps forward. Their extraordinary investigation changes lives forever and takes the reader on a ride to the edge of Metaphysics.

Professor Hadley MacNamara arrives in Perth from Oxford carrying a private ledger and a plan to make things right. By the following morning, he is dead.Classics lecturer Alex Moreton noticed something wrong in a wine glass she was not supposed to notice.Working alongside Detective Sergeant Rachel Quinn, Alex begins to read the evening as a text: the practised ease of a senior administrator's conversation at the bar, the calculated stillness of a doctoral candidate during the toast, forty seconds of negotiation heard through a cedar screen. Three inconsistencies. Four. A pattern.The investigation leads back through fifteen years of formal complaints that were received, reviewed, and quietly directed to fail. And to a person who had built an entire institutional life on the conviction that the record could be managed — who had not considered that a classicist with thirty years of reading practice, a very old pharmacology seminar, and an absolute inability to look away from an inconsistency might also be reading the record.

When a small, ancient Irishman appears on a school fence post eating a cheese sandwich, entirely invisible to almost everyone — fifteen-year-old Immie Whitfield is not entirely surprised. She has always been able to draw characters who step off the page and speak to her. She has always known the world was stranger than it appeared.She doesn't know her estranged grandfather is a magician. She doesn't know that an organisation called the Collectors has been watching her family for years. She doesn't know that her grandfather's time is running out — and that she is destined to inherit his gift.Immie learns the true nature of what she will inherit, and builds a circle of magically gifted allies who are destined to help her identify and destroy The Collectors. A fifteen-year-old girl from Perth who refuses to look away from people discovers that this, more than anything, is where the magic lives.

Immie Whitfield and her circle have mapped the Collector network, destroyed four supernatural nodes across three continents, and built the legal case that will bring the organisation down. Now they know what is left: not a building, not a ledger, not an archive. A manufactured thin place in the west of Ireland, built a hundred and fifty years ago from a covenant that was never supposed to be sealed — holding the original agreement, the true version, the one that proves the Collectors were wrong from the very beginning.The only person alive who knows where it is, and how it was built, is Adelaide. She is eighty-three. She built it at sixteen. She has been waiting sixty-seven years for the chance to help undo it.But first, she has to earn a seat at the Thomas Street kitchen table.The Covenant is the conclusion of The Magician's Granddaughter — a four book series about young women with special gifts, one ancient Irishman, a circle of gifted people who changed everything, and the single most important thing in the world: paying full attention.They go to Sydney. Then London. Then home. Then Ireland.Tea first.

Book Three of The Magician's Granddaughter series is set in Perth, Western Australia. Book three is the trilogy closer for the discovery arc established in Books One and Two. Book One established the gift of witnessing, the circle, the Collectors as antagonists, and the first Perth operation. Book Two destroyed the Edinburgh Ledger and corrected the Dublin founding document. Book Three discovers the full shape of the Collector network, destroys the Perth node, and maps the remaining installations. The Collectors did not just build a network. They encoded it into the earth— ley lines repurposed, locked, and laid into the foundations of buildings across the Earth. The Perth node has been running for a hundred and thirty years. The building above it is scheduled for demolition in eleven days. Immie has to read the map of everything the Collectors have been hiding before they demolish the evidence. The operation is not a break-in. It is a reading.

Six weeks since the skyrocket. Six weeks since Imogen Whitfield turned sixteen and her grandfather's gift became hers — and then kept becoming more than she'd bargained for.  Immie can read objects now. Touch a button from someone's coat and receive their whole worried life. Hold an old iron key and find herself in a lamplit room in Edinburgh, watching a man write in an enormous leather-bound ledger with the certainty of someone who has been doing this for a very long time.  The Collectors have been doing this for seven hundred years. They take magical gifts from practitioners and record the takings: name, date, what was taken. Forty-seven souls are bound in the Edinburgh ledger. In a lane in Dublin, the founding document of their entire institution sits on a reading table — misread, since the fourteenth century, as permission for everything they've done.  With her circle — Priya and her protocols, Monika and her gift for receiving what is freed, and Rosamund Vass, who has been waiting two years for someone to hear what she encoded into a folklore book on a Scottish train — Immie plans two operations. One to destroy the ledger. One to correct five hundred years of institutional misreading.  The story of the Ledger moves from Perth to Edinburgh to Dublin and finally to the west coast of Ireland. It is a novel about what it means to fully focus on someone correctly. It is the second book in The Magician's Granddaughter series by Patrick Maher.