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Causation in Decision, Belief Change, and Statistics

Proceedings of the Irvine Conference on Probability and Causation

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. William L. Harper

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

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  2. Brian Skyrms

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

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Part of the book series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science (WONS, volume 42)

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Table of contents (9 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  4. Statistics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193
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    2. Four Themes in Statistical Explanation

      • Isaac Levi
      Pages 195-222

    3. Artificial Intelligence for Statistical and Causal Modelling

      • Clark Glymour
      Pages 223-247

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 249-254
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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 Vll INTRODUCTION PART I: DECISIONS AND GAMES Causal notions have recently corne to figure prominently in discussions about rational decision making. Indeed, a relatively influential new approach to theorizing about rational choice has come to be called "causal decision theory". 1 Decision problems such as Newcombe's Problem and some versions of the Prisoner's Dilemma where an act counts as evidence for a desired state even though the agent knows his choice of that act cannot causally influence whether or not the state obtains have motivated causal decision theorists.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Talbot College, The University of Western Ontario, Canada

    William L. Harper

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

    Brian Skyrms

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Causation in Decision, Belief Change, and Statistics

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

  • Editors: William L. Harper, Brian Skyrms

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

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2865-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands 1988

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2634-6Published: 31 August 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7789-7Published: 09 February 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-2865-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1566-659X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1974

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 254

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science

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