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Bradford Skow

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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New York University
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2005
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Language
General Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of Physical Science
Aesthetics
Normative Ethics
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Areas of Interest
Epistemology
Metaphysics
Normative Ethics
Philosophy of Physical Science
Philosophy of Language
General Philosophy of Science
Aesthetics
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    The role of chance in explanation
    Australasian Journal of Philosophy (1): 1-21. 2013.
    ?Those ice cubes melted because by melting total entropy increased and entropy increase has a very high objective chance.? What role does the chance in this explanation play? I argue that it contributes to the explanation by entailing that the melting was almost necessary, and defend the claim that the fact that some event was almost necessary can, in the right circumstances, constitute a causal explanation of that event
    Statistical ExplanationCausal Accounts of ExplanationChance and Objective Probability, Misc
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