Causation, coherence, and concepts : a collection of essays

Causation, coherence, and concepts : a collection of essays / Wolfgang Spohn.

In this collection I present 16 of my, I feel, more substantial papers on theoretical philosophy, 12 as originally published, one co-authored with Ulrike Haas-Spohn (Chapter14), one (Chapter 15) that was a brief conference commentary, but is in fact a suitable appendix to Chapter 14, one as a transl...

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Main Author: Spohn, Wolfgang
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Dordrecht] : Springer, ©2009.
Series:Boston studies in the philosophy of science (Online) ; v. 256.
Subjects:
Causation.
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Sciences humaines.
Sciences sociales.
Causation
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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.

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