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159Few people have thought so hard about the nature of the quantum theory as has Jeff Bub,· and so it seems appropriate to offer in his honor some reflections on that theory. My topic is an old one, the consistency of our microscopic theories with our macroscopic theories, my example, the Aspect experiments (Aspect et al., 1981, 1982, 1982a; Clauser and Shimony, l978;_Duncan and Kleinpoppen, 199,8) is familiar, and my sirnplrcation of it is borrowed. All that is new here is a kind of diagonalizatio…Read more
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26Hans Reichenbach's probability logicIn Dov M. Gabbay, John Woods & Akihiro Kanamori (eds.), Handbook of the history of logic, Elsevier. pp. 10--357. 2004.
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275Theory and EvidencePrinceton University Press. 1980.The Description for this book, Theory and Evidence, will be forthcoming.
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294Determinism, ignorance, and quantum mechanicsJournal of Philosophy 68 (21): 744-751. 1971.is every bit as intelligible and philosophically respectable as many other doctrines currently in favor, e.g., the doctrine that mental events are identical with brain events; the attempt to give a linguistic construal of this latter doctrine meets many of the same sorts of difficulties encountered above (see Hempel, op. cit.). Secondly, I think that evidence for universal determinism may not, as a matter of fact, be so hard to come by as one might imagine. It is a striking fact about our world …Read more
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35Causal maps and Bayes nets: A cognitive and computational account of theory-formationIn Peter Carruthers, Stephen Stich & Michael Siegal (eds.), The Cognitive Basis of Science, Cambridge University Press. pp. 117--132. 2002.
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6Why I am not a BayesianIn Antony Eagle (ed.), Philosophy of Probability: Contemporary Readings, Routledge. 2010.
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47A general principle for good pedagogic strategy is this: other things equal, make the essential principles of the subject explicit rather than tacit. We think that this principle is routinely violated in conventional instruction in statistics. Even though most of the early history of probability theory has been driven by causal considerations, the terms “cause” and “causation” have practically disappeared from statistics textbooks. Statistics curricula guide students away from the concept of cau…Read more
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