Contrastive Explanation and the Demons of Determinism

DOI10.1093/BJPS/50.4.585MaRDI QIDQ4518192zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christopher Hitchcock

Publication date 28 May 2001

Published in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/50.4.585

zbMATH Keywords

philosophy of science

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability and inductive logic (03B48) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05)

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