Causation, coherence, and concepts : a collection of essays /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[Dordrecht] :
Springer,
[2009]
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| Series: | Boston studies in the philosophy of science (Online) ;
v. 256. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- 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.