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Probability and causality: Essays in honor of Wesley C. Salmon

By Salmon , Wesley Charles; Fetzer , James H (ed.)

Book information

Publisher
D. Reidel
Year
1988
ISBN
9789027726070, 90-277-2607-8
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
5 MB (5108603 bytes)
Series
Synthese library 192
Pages
353\380
Library
kolxo3
Time added
2019-04-25 18:00:00
Probabilità;Causalità;Filosofia scientifica.;Sci

Description

Content: Prologue.- Dynamic Rationality: Propensity, Probability, and Credence.- I: Probability, Causality, and Modality.- Hume's Refutation of Inductive Probabilism.- An Adamite Derivation of the Principles of the Calculus of Probability.- Probability, Possibility, and Plenitude.- Probabilistic Metaphysics.- Probabilistic Theories of Causation.- Conditional Chance.- II: Probability, Causality, and Decision.- How to Tell a Common Cause: Generalizations of the Conjunctive Fork Criterion.- Probabilistic Causal Interaction and Disjunctive Causal Factors.- The Principle of the Common Cause.- On Raising the Chances of Effects.- How to Probabilize a Newcomb Problem.- Non-Nietzschean Decision Making.- Epilogue.- Publications: An Annotated Bibliography.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.

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