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Causation, Chance and Credence - Proceedings of the Irvine Conference on Probability and Causation Volume 1 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988)
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Causation, Chance and Credence - Proceedings of the Irvine Conference on Probability and Causation Volume 1 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988)
Series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, 41
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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."
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Imprint: |
Springer
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Country of origin: |
Netherlands |
Series: |
The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, 41 |
Release date: |
2012 |
First published: |
1988 |
Editors: |
B. Skyrms
• W.L. Harper
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Dimensions: |
235 x 155 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
286 |
Edition: |
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988 |
ISBN-13: |
978-9401077880 |
Categories: |
Books >
Science & Mathematics >
Science: general issues >
Philosophy of science
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LSN: |
9401077886 |
Barcode: |
9789401077880 |
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