Propensities and probabilities

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2006.09.003MaRDI QIDQ643104zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nuel D. jun. Belnap

Publication date 27 October 2011

Published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2006.09.003

zbMATH Keywords

branching historiesindeterminismoriginating causesprobabilitiespropensitiesspace-times

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Axioms; other general questions in probability (60A05) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05)

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• The propensity theory: a decision-theoretic restatement
• How causal probabilities might fit into our objectively indeterministic world
• Newtonian determinism to branching space-times indeterminism in two moves
• Branching in the landscape of possibilities
• The propensity interpretation of probability: a re-evaluation
• Can there be a propensity interpretation of conditional probabilities?
• Propensities and conditional probabilities
• Conditional probability, conditional events, and single-case propensities
• Probability Theory and Causation: A Branching Space-Times Analysis
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• Twenty-one arguments against propensity analyses of probability
• Propensity and probability in depositional facies analysis and modeling
• Behavioral probabilities

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