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18Philosophical PapersOup Usa. 2018.This volume contains fifteen papers by Paul Humphreys, who has made important contributions to the philosophy of computer simulations, emergence, the philosophy of probability, probabilistic causality, and scientific explanation. It includes detailed postscripts to each section and a philosophical introduction. One of the papers is previously unpublished.
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18Chapter three. Cause and chanceIn Jim Woodward (ed.), The Chances of Explanation: Causal Explanation in the Social, Medical and Physical Sciences, Princeton University Press. pp. 61-97. 1993.
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17Chapter two. Probabilistic causationIn Jim Woodward (ed.), The Chances of Explanation: Causal Explanation in the Social, Medical and Physical Sciences, Princeton University Press. pp. 22-60. 1993.
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16Teorías de causación y explicación:¿ necesariamente verdaderas o dominio-específicas?Enrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofía 37 19-33. 2005.
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15Plausible Reasoning. An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Plausibilistic InferenceJournal of Symbolic Logic 43 (1): 159-160. 1978.
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13Consensus Institute StaffIn C. Wade Savage (ed.), Scientific Theories, University of Minnesota Press. pp. 417. 1990.
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12Science, Belief, and Behaviour: Essays in Honour of R. B. BraithwaitePhilosophical Review 91 (4): 609. 1982.
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11Book Review:Hans Reichenbach: Logical Empiricist Wesley Salmon (review)Philosophy of Science 49 (1): 140-. 1982.
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9Computer SimulationsPSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990 (2): 496-506. 1990.A great deal of attention has been paid by philosophers to the use of computers in the modelling of human cognitive capacities and in the construction of intelligent artifacts. This emphasis has tended to obscure the fact that most of the high-level computing power in science is deployed in what appears to be a much less exciting activity: solving equations. This apparently mundane set of applications reflects the historical origins of modem computing, in the sense that most of the early compute…Read more
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7Teories de causació i explicació: necessàriament vertaderes o domini-específiques?Enrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofía 37 19-33. 2005.https://revistes.uab.cat/enrahonar/article/view/v37-humphreys.
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6Chapter one. Traditional causationIn Jim Woodward (ed.), The Chances of Explanation: Causal Explanation in the Social, Medical and Physical Sciences, Princeton University Press. pp. 3-21. 1993.
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6Observation and Reliable DetectionIn Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara (ed.), Language, Quantum, Music, . pp. 19--24. 1999.
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5Rescher Nicholas. Plausible reasoning. An introduction to the theory and practice of plausibilistic inference. Van Gorcum, Assen and Amsterdam 1976, and Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, N.J., 1977, xiii + 124 pp (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 43 (1): 159-160. 1978.
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5Models, Simulations, and Representations (edited book)Routledge. 2011.Although scientific models and simulations differ in numerous ways, they are similar in so far as they are posing essentially philosophical problems about the nature of representation. This collection is designed to bring together some of the best work on the nature of representation being done by both established senior philosophers of science and younger researchers. Most of the pieces, while appealing to existing traditions of scientific representation, explore new types of questions, such as…Read more
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5Is “Physical Randomness” Just Indeterminism in Disguise?PSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1978 (2): 98-113. 1978.The topic of this session is “physical randomness”. It might be doubted whether such a subject exists, for definitions of randomness have hitherto almost all been mathematical in nature. The only exceptions of which I am aware are the preceding paper by Benioff and a paper by Wesley Salmon. These attempts to inject some empirical content into randomness are highly desirable. But anyone attempting to formulate a physically based definition of randomness should at some point make clear what the co…Read more
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4Review of J. F. Rosenberg: One World and Our Knowledge of It: The Problematic of Realism in Post-Kantian Perspective (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 34 (4): 410-412. 1983.
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3Chapter four. Scientific explanationsIn Jim Woodward (ed.), The Chances of Explanation: Causal Explanation in the Social, Medical and Physical Sciences, Princeton University Press. pp. 98-142. 1993.
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3Appendix three. Transitivity and negative linksIn Jim Woodward (ed.), The Chances of Explanation: Causal Explanation in the Social, Medical and Physical Sciences, Princeton University Press. pp. 153-157. 1993.
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3Appendix two. Extension of the basic quantitative theoryIn Jim Woodward (ed.), The Chances of Explanation: Causal Explanation in the Social, Medical and Physical Sciences, Princeton University Press. pp. 145-152. 1993.
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3Appendix one. Covariance measuresIn Jim Woodward (ed.), The Chances of Explanation: Causal Explanation in the Social, Medical and Physical Sciences, Princeton University Press. pp. 143-144. 1993.
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3Book Reviews : Jon Elster, Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989. Pp. viii, US$34.50 (cloth), US$9.95 (paper (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 21 (1): 114-121. 1991.
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2IndexIn Jim Woodward (ed.), The Chances of Explanation: Causal Explanation in the Social, Medical and Physical Sciences, Princeton University Press. pp. 167-170. 1993.
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2Wesley C. Salmon 1925-2001: A Symposium Honoring His Contributions to the Philosophy of Science-Some Thoughts on Wesley Salmon's Contributions to the Philosophy of Probability (review)Philosophy of Science 71 (5): 942-949. 2004.Wesley Salmon provided three classic criteria of adequacy for satisfactory interpretations of probability. A fourth criterion is suggested here. A distinction is drawn between frequency-driven probability models and theory-driven probability models and it is argued that single case accounts of chance are superior to frequency accounts at least for the latter. Finally it is suggested that theories of chance should be required only to be contingently true, a position which is a natural extension o…Read more
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2PrefaceIn Jim Woodward (ed.), The Chances of Explanation: Causal Explanation in the Social, Medical and Physical Sciences, Princeton University Press. 1993.
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1ReferencesIn Jim Woodward (ed.), The Chances of Explanation: Causal Explanation in the Social, Medical and Physical Sciences, Princeton University Press. pp. 158-166. 1993.
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