On the Metaphysics of Probabilistic Causation: Lessons from Social Epidemiology.
I argue that the orthodox account of probabilistic causation, on which probabilistic causes determine the probability of their effects, is inconsistent with certain ontological assumptions implicit in scientific practice. In particular, scientists recognize the possibility that properties of populat...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 70; no. 5; pp. 1413 - 1424 |
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Cambridge University Press
Dec2003
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