Probability, explanation, and information

DOI10.1007/BF01063889zbMATH Open0476.03014MaRDI QIDQ1159617FDOQ1159617

Authors: Peter Railton 

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

determinismideal explanatory textprobabilistic explanation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Information theory (general) (94A15) Probability and inductive logic (03B48) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Axioms; other general questions in probability (60A05)

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• Computationalism
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• Contrastive statistical explanation and causal heterogeneity
• A logic for `because'
• Induction, constructivity, and grounding

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