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Patrick Suppes, Scientific Philosopher Vol. 1: Probability and Probabilistic Causality (edited book)Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1994.
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273Synchronic and diachronic emergenceMinds and Machines 18 (4): 431-442. 2008.I discuss here a number of different kinds of diachronic emergence, noting that they differ in important ways from synchronic conceptions. I argue that Bedau’s weak emergence has an essentially historical aspect, in that there can be two indistinguishable states, one of which is weakly emergent, the other of which is not. As a consequence, weak emergence is about tokens, not types, of states. I conclude by examining the question of whether the concept of weak emergence is too weak and note that …Read more
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116Computational science and scientific methodMinds and Machines 5 (4): 499-512. 1995.The process of constructing mathematical models is examined and a case made that the construction process is an integral part of the justification for the model. The role of heuristics in testing and modifying models is described and some consequences for scientific methodology are drawn out. Three different ways of constructing the same model are detailed to demonstrate the claims made here.
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21Models as mediators: perspectives on natural and social scienceStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 33 (2): 374-377. 2002.
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107Are there algorithms that discover causal structure?Synthese 121 (1-2): 29-54. 1999.There have been many efforts to infer causation from association byusing statistical models. Algorithms for automating this processare a more recent innovation. In Humphreys and Freedman[(1996) British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 47, 113–123] we showed that one such approach, by Spirtes et al., was fatally flawed. Here we put our arguments in a broader context and reply to Korb and Wallace [(1997) British Journal for thePhilosophy of Science 48, 543–553] and to Spirtes et al.[(1997) Br…Read more
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