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Causation, coherence, and concepts : a collection of essays /
In this collection I present 16 of my, I feel, more substantial papers on theoretical philosophy, 12 as originally published, one co-authored with Ulrike Haas-Spohn (Chapter14), one (Chapter 15) that was a brief conference commentary, but is in fact a suitable appendix to Chapter 14, one as a transl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Dordrecht] :
Springer,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Boston studies in the philosophy of science (Online) ;
v. 256. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ordinal conditional functions: a dynamic theory of epistemic states
- Direct and indirect causes
- Causation: an alternative
- Bayesian nets are all there is to causal dependence
- Causal laws are objectifications of inductive schemes
- Laws, ceteris paribus conditions, and the dynamics of belief
- Enumerative induction and lawlikeness
- Chance and necessity: from Humean supervenience to Humean projection
- A reason for explanation: explanations provide stable reasons
- Two coherence principles
- How to understand the foundations of empirical belief in a coherentist way
- A priori reasons: a fresh look at disposition predicates
- The character of color terms: a materialist view
- Concepts are beliefs about essences
- Changing concepts
- The intentional versus the propositional structure of contents.