A Theory of Physical Probability /

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Richard Johns argues that random events are fully caused and lack only determination by their causes; according to his causal theory of chance, the physical chance of an event is the degree to which the event is determined by its causes.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Johns, Richard, 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2002.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Chance.
Causation.
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
Causalite.
Hasard.
Causality
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a ""CONTENTS""; ""1 Introduction""; ""1.1 Motivation for the Causal Theory of Chance""; ""1.2 Problems for the Causal Theory""; ""1.3 Advantages of the Causal Theory""; ""1.4 Overview of the Book""; ""2 Logic and Probability""; ""2.1 The Objections to Logical Probability""; ""2.2 The Nature of Logical Probability""; ""2.3 Measuring Degrees of Belief""; ""2.4 The Axioms of Probability""; ""2.5 Relative Probabilities""; ""2.6 Interval Probabilities""; ""2.7 The Symmetry Axiom""; ""3 Causation and Determination""; ""3.1 Causation""; ""3.2 Determination"" 
505 0 |a ""3.3 How Are Causation and Determination Related?""""4 Physical Chance""; ""4.1 The Definition of Chance""; ""4.2 Chance Is Relativized to a System""; ""4.3 Lewis's Objections""; ""4.4 A Proof of Miller's Principle""; ""4.5 The Objections of Howson and Urbach""; ""4.6 Chance and Relative Frequency""; ""4.7 Frequency Theories of Probability""; ""4.8 Conditional Chances""; ""5 Classical Stochastic Mechanics""; ""5.1 What Is CSM Good for?""; ""5.2 The Law Function""; ""5.3 Relevance and Correlation""; ""5.4 Chance in a Composite System""; ""5.5 Sub-histories, States, and Markov Systems"" 
505 0 |a ""5.6 Boundary Conditions and Time""""5.7 The Arrow of Time""; ""6 Correlation""; ""6.1 Classical and Quantum Correlation""; ""6.2 Reactions to EPR""; ""6.3 Beyond Postulate CSM3""; ""7 The State Vector""; ""7.1 The Problem""; ""7.2 Large and Small Systems""; ""7.3 Chance for Small Systems""; ""7.4 Summary""; ""8 Conclusion""; ""NOTES""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z"" 
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