Probabilistic Causality

Klappentext In this important book! Ellery Eells explores and refines philosophical conceptions of probabilistic causality. Zusammenfassung In this important book! Ellery Eells explores and refines philosophical conceptions of probabilistic causality. In a probabilistic theory of causation! causes increase the probability of their effects rather than necessitate their effects in the ways traditional deterministic theories have specified. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; 1. Populations and probability; 2. Spurious correlation and probability increase; 3. Causal interaction and probability increase; 4. Causal intermediaries and transitivity; 5. Temporal priority, asymmetry, and some comparisons; 6. Token-level probabilistic causationl Appendixes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Assisted by: Ernest W. Adams (Editor), Brian Skyrms (Editor)
• Authors: Ellery Eells, Eells Ellery
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 29.03.1991
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy
• EAN: 9780521392440
• ISBN: 978-0-521-39244-0
• Pages: 428
• Series: Ideas in Context; Cambridge Studies in Probability, Induction and Decision Theory
• Subjects: PHILOSOPHY / Logic; Philosophy: logic