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133& Carnegie Mellon University Abstract The rationality of human causal judgments has been the focus of a great deal of recent research. We argue against two major trends in this research, and for a quite different way of thinking about causal mechanisms and probabilistic data. Our position rejects a false dichotomy between "mechanistic" and "probabilistic" analyses of causal inference -- a dichotomy that both overlooks the nature of the evidence that supports the induction of mechanisms and misse…Read more
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137What is right with 'bayes net methods' and what is wrong with 'hunting causes and using them'?British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 61 (1): 161-211. 2010.Nancy Cartwright's recent criticisms of efforts and methods to obtain causal information from sample data using automated search are considered. In addition to reviewing that effort, I argue that almost all of her criticisms are false and rest on misreading, overgeneralization, or neglect of the relevant literature
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15Examining Holistic Medicine (edited book)Prometheus Books. 1985.Essays discuss the history, philosophy, methodology, and practices of holistic medicine
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26Physics by conventionPhilosophy of Science 39 (3): 322-340. 1972.“It ain't nuthin' until I call it.”Bill Guthrie, UmpireNumerous criticisms of Adolf Grünbaum's account of conventions in physics have been published, and he has replied to most of them. Nonetheless, there seem to me to be good reasons for offering further criticism. In the first place Grünbaum's philosophy seems to me at least partly an extrapolation of one aspect of the views on conventions developed by Reichenbach and others. Since I think many of the issues which Reichenbach attempted to sett…Read more
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1"Afterword to" Freud, Kepler and the Clinical EvidenceIn Richard Wollheim & James Hopkins (eds.), Philosophical Essays on Freud, Cambridge University Press. pp. 29--31. 1982.
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89Thoroughly Modern MenoIn Clark Glymour & Kevin T. Kelly (eds.), Inference, Explanation, and Other Frustrations: Essays in the Philosophy of Science, University of California Press: Berkeley. pp. 3--22. 1992.Clark Glymour and Kevin T. Kelly. Thoroughly Modern Meno
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For Real: Reflections on Science and ObjectivityIn Mary Lou Maxwell & C. Wade Savage (eds.), Science, Mind, and Psychology: Essays in Honor of Grover Maxwell, University Press of America. pp. 35. 1989.
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