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The Chances of Explanation
Paul Humphreys
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Philosophie
Beschreibung
This book provides a post-positivist theory of deterministic and probabilistic causality that supports both quantitative and qualitative explanations. Features of particular interest include the ability to provide true explanations in contexts where our knowledge is incomplete, a systematic interpretation of causal modeling techniques in the social sciences, and a direct realist view of causal relations that is compatible with a liberal empiricism. The book should be of wide interest to both philosophers and scientists.
Originally published in 1989.
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Experimentalism, Circular reasoning, Detection, Inference, Probability, Begging the question, Axiom, Identifiability, Causal system, Counterfactual definiteness, Reproducibility, Probability space, Hypothesis, Additive model, Performative utterance, Verisimilitude, Polemic, Choice function, Statistical significance, Corrective and preventive action, Probability interpretations, Appearance and Reality, Sophistication, Potential well, Suggestion, Utilitarianism, Explanandum, Symptom, Explanation, Probability distribution, Probability measure, Counterexample, Phenomenon, Bayesian probability, Special case, Disposition, Experiment, Result, Sine qua non, Causality, Working hypothesis, Relativism, Predictability, Thought, Causal model, Counterfactual conditional, Explanatory power, Instrumentalism, Latent variable, Deductive-nomological model, Variable (mathematics), Precondition, Requirement, Conditional expectation, Probability theory, Probabilistic causation, Positivism, Empiricism, Pragmatism, Possible world, Predictive power, Simultaneity, Testability, Inductive probability, Causal inference, Theory, Prediction, Ontology, Qualitative property, Speculative reason