عنوان

Causation, Chance and Credence :

شابک

9400928637

شابک

9789400928633

شماره

b592974

عنوان اصلي

Causation, Chance and Credence :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Proceedings of the Irvine Conference on Probability and Causation Volume 1

نام نخستين پديدآور

edited by Brian Skyrms, William L. Harper.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Dordrecht

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Springer Netherlands

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

1988

نام خاص و کميت اثر

(300 pages)

عنوان فروست

University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books in Philosophy of Science, Methodology, Epistemology, Logic, History of Science, and Related Fields, 41.

متن يادداشت

A. On the Nature of Probabilistic Causation --; Causality Testing in a Decision Science --; Causal Tendency: A Review --; Intuitions: Good and Not-So-Good --; Response to Salmon --; Regular Associations and Singular Causes --; Eliminating Singular Causes: Reply to Nancy Cartwright --; Reply to Ellery Eells --; Probabilistic Causal Levels --; Probabilistic Causality in Space and Time --; B. Physical Probability, Degree of Belief, and De Finettis Theorem --; Symmetry and Its Discontents --; A Theory of Higher Order Probabilities --; Conditioning, Kinematics, and Ex-changeability --; Ergodic Theory and the Foundations of Probability --; Indexes.

متن يادداشت

The papers collected here are, with three exceptions, those presented at a conference on probability and causation held at the University of California at Irvine on July 15-19, 1985. The exceptions are that David Freedman and Abner Shimony were not able to contribute the papers that they presented to this volume, and that Clark Glymour who was not able to attend the conference did contribute a paper. We would like to thank the National Science Foundation and the School of Humanities of the University of California at Irvine for generous support. WILLIAM HARPER University of Western Ontario BRIAN SKYRMS University of California at Irvine VII INTRODUCTION TO CAUSATION, CHANCE, AND CREDENCE The search for causes is so central to science that it has sometimes been taken as the defining attribute of the scientific enterprise. Yet even after twenty-five centuries of philosophical analysis the meaning of "cause" is still a matter of controversy, among scientists as well as philosophers. Part of the problem is that the servicable concepts of causation built out of Necessity, Sufficiency, Locality, and Temporal Precedence were constructed for a deterministic world-view which has been obsolete since the advent of quantum theory. A physically credible theory of causation must be, at basis, statistical. And statistical analyses of caus ation may be of interest even when an underlying deterministic theory is assumed, as in classical statistical mechanics.

عنوان اصلي به زبان ديگر

Proceedings of the Irvine Conference on Probability and Causation, Volume I.

موضوع مستند نشده

Philosophy (General)

موضوع مستند نشده

Science -- Philosophy.

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

edited by Brian Skyrms, William L. Harper.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Brian Skyrms

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

William L Harper

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y