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59Physics and the Humean approach to probabilityIn Claus Beisbart & Stephan Hartmann (eds.), Probabilities in Physics, Oxford University Press. pp. 321. 2011.
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58Calibration: Being in Tune with FrequenciesDialectica 66 (3): 435-452. 2012.Our beliefs can have, or fail to have, a significant epistemic virtue: they can be true. What about our partial beliefs – that is, credences or subjective probabilities? Is there an epistemic virtue that credences can have or fail to have, whose nature or role with respect to credences is analogous to the role that truth has with respect to full beliefs? Van Fraassen argued in the 1980s that there is indeed such an analog virtue, and he claimed that it is calibration: our credences should match,…Read more
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57Mach׳s principle as action-at-a-distance in GR: The causality questionStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 48 (2): 128-136. 2014.
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25Classicality and Bell’s theoremEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Science 13 (3): 1-24. 2023.A widespread view among physicists is that Bell’s theorem rests on an implicit assumption of “classicality,” in addition to locality. According to this understanding, the violation of Bell’s inequalities poses no challenge to locality, but simply reinforces the fact that quantum mechanics is not classical. The paper provides a critical analysis of this view. First we characterize the notion of classicality in probabilistic terms. We argue that classicality thus construed has nothing to do with t…Read more
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18Chance in the World: A Humean Guide to Objective ChanceOup Usa. 2018.This book explains how we can understand objective chance in a metaphysically neutral way, as reducible to certain patterns that can be discerned in the actual events of our world.
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17The philosopher’s paradoxTheoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 34 (3): 407-421. 2019.We offer a novel argument for one-boxing in Newcomb’s Problem. The intentional states of a rational person are psychologically coherent across time, and rational decisions are made against this backdrop. We compare this coherence constraint with a golf swing, which to be effective must include a follow-through after the ball is in flight. Decisions, like golf swings, are extended processes, and their coherence with other psychological states of a player in the Newcomb scenario links her choice w…Read more
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12Measures of effectiveness in medical research: Reporting both absolute and relative measuresStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 88. 2021.Biomedical research, especially pharmaceutical research, has been criticised for engaging in practices that lead to over-estimations of the effectiveness of medical treatments. A central issue concerns the reporting of absolute and relative measures of medical effectiveness. In this paper we critically examine proposals made by Jacob Stegenga to (a) give priority to the reporting of absolute measures over relative measures, and (b) downgrade the measures of effectiveness (effect sizes) of the tr…Read more
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10Philosophy of space-time physicsIn Peter Machamer & Michael Silberstein (eds.), Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Science, . pp. 173-198. 2002.
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7Replies by CartwrightIn Luc Bovens, Carl Hoefer & Stephan Hartmann (eds.), Nancy Cartwright’s Philosophy of Science, . 2010.
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2Scientific realism without the quantumIn Steven French & Juha Saatsi (eds.), Scientific Realism and the Quantum, Oxford University Press. 2020.
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2John Earman, World Enough and Space-time: Absolute vs. relational theories of space and time Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 11 (3): 178-181. 1991.
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Time and Chance PropensitiesIn Craig Callender (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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Causation in spacetime theoriesIn Helen Beebee, Peter Menzies & Christopher Hitchcock (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Causation, Oxford University Press. pp. 685--704. 2009.
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General Relativity and Spacetime RelationismDissertation, Stanford University. 1992.This dissertation takes up the project of showing that, in the context of the general theory of relativity , spacetime relationism is not a refuted or hopeless view, as many in the recent literature have maintained . Most of the challenges to the relationist view in General Relativity can be satisfactorily answered; in addition, the opposing absolutist and substantivalist views of spacetime can be shown to be problematic. The crucial burden for relationists concerned with GTR is to show that the…Read more
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Consistency and Admissibility: Reply to MeachamIn Alastair Wilson (ed.), Chance and Temporal Asymmetry, Oxford University Press. 2014.
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Universitat de BarcelonaICREA Research Professor
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Barcelona, Spain
Areas of Specialization
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Laws of Nature |
Causation |
Theories of Causation |
Causation, Miscellaneous |
Chance and Objective Probability |
Dispositions and Powers |