Probability, explanation, and information

DOI10.1007/BF01063889MaRDI QIDQ1159617zbMATH OpenFDO

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)

Cited in

(8)

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• A logic for `because'
• Contrastive statistical explanation and causal heterogeneity
• Induction, constructivity, and grounding
• Computationalism
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• Building low level causation out of high level causation
• Deterministic probability: Neither chance nor credence

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