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This book, by one of the pre-eminent philosophers of science writing today, offers the most comprehensive account available of causal asymmetries. Causation is asymmetrical in many …
This volume brings together a collection of essays on the history and philosophy of probability and statistics by one of the eminent scholars in these subjects. Written over the …
In the social sciences norms are sometimes taken to play a key explanatory role. Yet norms differ from group to group, from society to society, and from species to species. How are …
The design inference uncovers intelligent causes by isolating their key trademark: specified events of small probability. Just about anything that happens is highly improbable, but …
Foundational issues in statistical mechanics and the more general question of how probability is to be understood in the context of physical theories are both areas that have been …
This book defends the view that any adequate account of rational decision making must take a decision maker’s beliefs about causal relations into account. The early chapters of the …