Probability is the very guide of life : the philosophical uses of chance /
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Chicago :
Open Court,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- Reichenbach, reference classes, and single-case 'probabilities' / James H. Fetzer
- Direct inference and the problem of induction / Timothy McGrew
- Objective modality and direct inference / Isaac Levi
- Severe testing as a guide for inductive learning / Deborah G. Mayo
- Bayesian meets frequentist: a marriage made in California / James R. Henderson
- Probability as a guide in life / Henry E. Kyburg, Jr.
- A dilemma for objective chance / Phil Dowe
- Simpson's paradox: a logically benign, empirically treacherous hydra / Gary Malinas
- Conditional probability is the very guide of life / Alan Hájek
- Causal generalizations and good advice / Christopher Hitchcock
- Instrumental probability / Clark Glymour
- What is wrong with Bayes nets? / Nancy Cartwright
- Don't take unnecessary chances! / Henry E. Kyburg, Jr.
- The reduction of causation / Mariam Thalos
- Is it a crime to belong to a reference class? / Mark Colyvan, Helen M. Regan, and Scott Ferson
- Explaining things probabilistically / Wesley C. Salmon.