Probability and explanation

DOI10.1007/BF01063986zbMath0483.03011MaRDI QIDQ1163007

James H. Fetzer

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

conditionalcauseprobabilistic causal calculuscausal explanationscovering law formmodels for long run propensitiesmodels for single case propensities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Modal logic (including the logic of norms) (03B45) Probability and inductive logic (03B48) Axioms; other general questions in probability (60A05)

Cites Work

• A probabilistic causal calculus: conflicting conceptions
• A Laplacean formal semantics for single-case propensities
• Subjunctives, dispositions and chances
• Reichenbach, reference classes, and single case probabilities
• Randomness, independence, and hypotheses
• Objectively homogeneous reference classes
• Syntax, semantics, and ontology: A probabilistic causal calculus
• Propensity and necessity
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