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118Comments on Woodward, "Making Things Happen" (review)History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 28 (4). 2006.
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423Two mistakes about credence and chanceAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 82 (1). 2004.David Lewis's influential work on the epistemology and metaphysics of objective chance has convinced many philosophers of the central importance of the following two claims: First, it is a serious cost of reductionist positions about chance (such as that occupied by Lewis) that they are, apparently, forced to modify the Principal Principle--the central principle relating objective chance to rational subjective probability--in order to avoid contradiction. Second, it is a perhaps more serious cos…Read more
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37Review of Causality and Explanation by Wesley C. Salmon (review)Philosophy of Science 66 (3): 497-498. 1999.
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73Causation and the sciencesIn Steven French & Juha Saatsi (eds.), Continuum Companion to the Philosophy of Science, Continuum. pp. 96--119. 2011.
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179Causation and preemptionIn Peter Clark & Katherine Hawley (eds.), Philosophy of Science Today, Oxford University Press Uk. 2003.
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52Review of Wesley C. salmon, Phil Dowe (ed.), Merrilee H. salmon (ed.), Reality and Rationality (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (1). 2007.
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201How to set a surprise examMind 108 (432): 647-703. 1999.The professor announces a surprise exam for the upcoming week; her clever student purports to demonstrate by reductio that she cannot possibly give such an exam. Diagnosing his puzzling argument reveals a deeper puzzle: Is the student justified in believing the announcement? It would seem so, particularly if the upcoming 'week' is long enough. On the other hand, a plausible principle states that if, at the outset, the student is justified in believing some proposition, then he is also justified …Read more
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