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_aQA279.4 _b.E34 1991 |
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_aEells, Ellery, _eauthor. |
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_aProbabilistic causality / _cEllery Eells. |
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_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c1991. |
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_a1 online resource (xii, 413 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s). |
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_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia |
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_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier |
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| 490 | 1 | _aCambridge studies in probability, induction and decision theory | |
| 500 | _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). | ||
| 520 | _aIn 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. Philosophical interest in this subject arises from attempts to understand population sciences as well as indeterminism in physics. Taking into account issues involving spurious correlation, probabilistic causal interaction, disjunctive causal factors, and temporal ideas, Professor Eells advances the analysis of what it is for one factor to be a positive causal factor for another. A salient feature of the book is a theory of token level probabilistic causation in which the evolution of the probability of a later event from an earlier event is central. This will be a book of crucial significance to philosophers of science and metaphysicians; it will also prove stimulating to many economists, psychologists, and physicists. | ||
| 650 | 0 | _aStatistical decision. | |
| 650 | 0 | _aCausality (Physics) | |
| 650 | 0 | _aProbabilities. | |
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_iPrint version: _z9780521392440 |
| 830 | 0 | _aCambridge studies in probability, induction, and decision theory. | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511570667 |
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