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Causation, Chance and Credence

Proceedings of the Irvine Conference on Probability and Causation Volume 1

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. Brian Skyrms

    1. Department of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, USA

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  2. William L. Harper

    1. Talbot College, The University of Western Ontario, Canada

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Part of the book series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science (WONS, volume 41)

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Table of contents (13 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. On the Nature of Probabilistic Causation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Causality Testing in a Decision Science

      • C. W. J. Granger
      Pages 3-21

    3. Causal Tendency: A Review

      • I. J. Good
      Pages 23-50

    4. Intuitions — Good and Not-So-Good

      • Wesley C. Salmon
      Pages 51-71

    5. Response to Salmon

      • I. J. Good
      Pages 73-78

    6. Regular Associations and Singular Causes

      • Nancy Cartwright
      Pages 79-97

    7. Eliminating Singular Causes: Reply to Nancy Cartwright

      • Ellery Eells
      Pages 99-104

    8. Reply to Ellery Eells

      • Nancy Cartwright
      Pages 105-108

    9. Probabilistic Causal Levels

      • Ellery Eells
      Pages 109-133

    10. Probabilistic Causality in Space and Time

      • Patrick Suppes
      Pages 135-151

  3. Physical Probability, Degree of Belief, and De Finetti’s Theorem

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
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    2. Symmetry and Its Discontents

      • S. L. Zabell
      Pages 155-190

    3. A Theory of Higher Order Probabilities

      • Haim Gaifman
      Pages 191-219

    4. Conditioning, Kinematics, and Exchangeability

      • Richard Jeffrey
      Pages 221-255

    5. Ergodic Theory and the Foundations of Probability

      • Jan Von Plato
      Pages 257-277

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 279-286
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About this book

The papers collected here are, with three exceptions, those presented at a conference on probability and causation held at the University of California at Irvine on July 15-19, 1985. The exceptions are that David Freedman and Abner Shimony were not able to contribute the papers that they presented to this volume, and that Clark Glymour who was not able to attend the conference did contribute a paper. We would like to thank the National Science Foundation and the School of Humanities of the University of California at Irvine for generous support. WILLIAM HARPER University of Western Ontario BRIAN SKYRMS University of California at Irvine VII INTRODUCTION TO CAUSATION, CHANCE, AND CREDENCE The search for causes is so central to science that it has sometimes been taken as the defining attribute of the scientific enterprise. Yet even after twenty-five centuries of philosophical analysis the meaning of "cause" is still a matter of controversy, among scientists as well as philosophers. Part of the problem is that the servicable concepts of causation built out of Necessity, Sufficiency, Locality, and Temporal Precedence were constructed for a deterministic world-view which has been obsolete since the advent of quantum theory. A physically credible theory of causation must be, at basis, statistical. And statistical analyses of caus­ ation may be of interest even when an underlying deterministic theory is assumed, as in classical statistical mechanics.

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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, USA

    Brian Skyrms

  • Talbot College, The University of Western Ontario, Canada

    William L. Harper

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Causation, Chance and Credence

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Irvine Conference on Probability and Causation Volume 1

  • Editors: Brian Skyrms, William L. Harper

  • Series Title: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2863-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1988

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2633-9Published: 31 July 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7788-0Published: 22 January 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-2863-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1566-659X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1974

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 286

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science

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