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Probability and Causality

Essays in Honor of Wesley C. Salmon

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Editors:
  1. James H. Fetzer

    1. University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA

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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 192)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Prologue

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Dynamic Rationality: Propensity, Probability, and Credence

      • Wesley C. Salmon
      Pages 3-40

  3. Probability, Causality, and Modality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41
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    2. Hume’s Refutation of Inductive Probabilism

      • William Edward Morris
      Pages 43-77

    3. An Adamite Derivation of the Principles of the Calculus of Probability

      • Abner Shimony
      Pages 79-89

    4. Probability, Possibility, and Plenitude

      • Ilkka Niiniluoto
      Pages 91-108

    5. Probabilistic Metaphysics

      • James H. Fetzer
      Pages 109-132

    6. Probabilistic Theories of Causation

      • Wayne A. Davis
      Pages 133-160

    7. Conditional Chance

      • Brian Skyrms
      Pages 161-178

  4. Probability, Causality, and Decision

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
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    2. How to Tell a Common Cause: Generalizations of the Conjunctive Fork Criterion

      • Nancy Cartwright
      Pages 181-188

    3. Probabilistic Causal Interaction and Disjunctive Causal Factors

      • Ellery Eells
      Pages 189-209

    4. The Principle of the Common Cause

      • Elliott Sober
      Pages 211-228

    5. On Raising the Chances of Effects

      • D. H. Mellor
      Pages 229-239

    6. How to Probabilize a Newcomb Problem

      • Richard Jeffrey
      Pages 241-251

    7. Non-Nietzschean Decision Making

      • Paul Humphreys
      Pages 253-268

  5. Epilogue

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 269-269
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    2. Publications: An Annotated Bibliography

      • Wesley C. Salmon
      Pages 271-336

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 337-362
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About this book

The contributions to this special collection concern issues and problems discussed in or related to the work of Wesley C. Salmon. Salmon has long been noted for his important work in the philosophy of science, which has included research on the interpretation of probability, the nature of explanation, the character of reasoning, the justification of induction, the structure of space/time and the paradoxes of Zeno, to mention only some of the most prominent. During a time of increasing preoccupation with historical and sociological approaches to under­ standing science (which characterize scientific developments as though they could be adequately analysed from the perspective of political movements, even mistaking the phenomena of conversion for the rational appraisal of scientific theories), Salmon has remained stead­ fastly devoted to isolating and justifying those normative standards distinguishing science from non-science - especially through the vindi­ cation of general principles of scientific procedure and the validation of specific examples of scientific theories - without which science itself cannot be (even remotely) adequately understood. In this respect, Salmon exemplifies and strengthens a splendid tradi­ tion whose most remarkable representatives include Hans Reichenbach, Rudolf Carnap and Carl G. Hempel, all of whom exerted a profound influence upon his own development.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA

    James H. Fetzer

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Probability and Causality

  • Book Subtitle: Essays in Honor of Wesley C. Salmon

  • Editors: James H. Fetzer

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3997-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1988

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2607-0Published: 31 December 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-55608-052-4Published: 31 December 1987

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-3997-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 362

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science

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