Probability and Causality Essays in Honor of Wesley C. Salmon
The contributions to this special collection concern issues and problems discussed in or related to the work of Wesley C. Salmon. Salmon has long been noted for his important work in the philosophy of science, which has included research on the interpretation of probability, the nature of explanatio...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1988, 1988
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1988 |
| Series: | Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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