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158Review. The quantum challenge. G Greenstein, AG ZajoncBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 50 (2): 313-315. 1999.
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212Induction and ProbabilityIn Peter Machamer & Michael Silberstein (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Science, Blackwell. pp. 149-172. 2002.Arguably, Hume's greatest single contribution to contemporary philosophy of science has been the problem of induction (1739). Before attempting its statement, we need to spend a few words identifying the subject matter of this corner of epistemology. At a first pass, induction concerns ampliative inferences drawn on the basis of evidence (presumably, evidence acquired more or less directly from experience)—that is, inferences whose conclusions are not (validly) entailed by the premises. Philosop…Read more
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138Comments on Michael Strevens’s Depth (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 84 (2): 474-482. 2012.
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140The hypothesis of the conditional construal of conditional probabilityIn Ellery Eells, Brian Skyrms & Ernest W. Adams (eds.), Probability and Conditionals: Belief Revision and Rational Decision, Cambridge University Press. pp. 75. 1994.
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177Rescued from the rubbish Bin: Lewis on causationPhilosophy of Science 71 (5): 1107-1114. 2004.Lewis's work on causation was governed by a familiar methodological approach: the aim was to come up with an account of causation that would recover, in as elegant a fashion as possible, all of our firm “pre‐theoretic” intuitions about hypothetical cases. That methodology faces an obvious challenge, in that it is not clear why anyone not interested in the semantics of the English word “cause” should care about its results. Better to take a different approach, one which treats our intuitions abou…Read more
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273Causation and Ceteris Paribus LawsThe Harvard Review of Philosophy 13 (1): 80-99. 2005.But of all this more later. To help fix ideas, let’s start with a concrete example
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1055Two concepts of causationIn John Collins, Ned Hall & Laurie Paul (eds.), Causation and Counterfactuals, Mit Press. pp. 225-276. 2004.
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119Comments on Woodward, "Making Things Happen" (review)History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 28 (4). 2006.
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429Two 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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