Causal theory

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141Science / Philosophy of science / Knowledge representation / Information science / Technical communication / Causality / Category of being / Nominalism / Substance theory / Ontology / Metaphysics / Philosophy

How  Does  Agent-­‐Causal  Power  Work?   (Forthcoming  in  a  special  issue  of  The  Modern  Schoolman  on  free  will)     Andrei  A.  Buckareff   Mari

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Source URL: www.generativescience.org

Language: English - Date: 2014-11-30 01:02:04
142Cognition / Ontology / Analytic philosophers / Intentionality / Fred Dretske / Information / Consciousness / Mental representation / Action theory / Philosophy of mind / Cognitive science / Mind

Intentionality and Evolution Joëlle Proust Behavioural Processes, 35, 1-3, 1995, pp[removed]. -----------------Abstract Three conditions are, according to Dretske, necessary for representations to be causal in an organi

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Source URL: joelleproust.org

Language: English - Date: 2012-09-20 11:33:20
143Philosophy of science / Decision theory / Utility / Game theory / Bayesian statistics / Causal decision theory / Expected utility hypothesis / Evidential decision theory / Causality / Philosophy / Knowledge / Statistics

In a recent paper Andy Egan[removed]offers a series of purported “counterexamples” to causal decision theory

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Source URL: www-personal.umich.edu

Language: English - Date: 2010-09-07 14:07:29
144Molecular biology / Gene expression / Molecular genetics / Gene / Human genome / Evolution / Causal theory of reference / Ridge / Chromosomal crossover / Biology / Genetics / Genomics

27 Reference, Truth, and Biological Kinds M ARCEL W EBER Abstract This paper examines causal theories of reference with respect to how plausible an account they give of non-physical natural kind terms such

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Source URL: www.unige.ch

Language: English - Date: 2014-11-07 16:16:16
145Probability / Causality / Bayesian network / Correlation and dependence / Independence / Conditional independence / Conditional probability distribution / Statistical dependence / Probability theory / Statistics

Aggregating Causal Judgments Richard Bradley LSE Franz Dietrich CNRS & UEA

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Source URL: personal.lse.ac.uk

Language: English - Date: 2014-04-30 07:16:26
146Decision theory / Game theory / Philosophy of science / Microeconomics / Causal decision theory / Evidential decision theory / Utility / Bayesian probability / Expected utility hypothesis / Statistics / Science / Knowledge

Lost memories and useless coins: Revisiting the absentminded driver∗ Wolfgang Schwarz 16 March[removed]Abstract. The puzzle of the absentminded driver combines a version of the

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147Photograph / Depiction / Science / Philosophy / Astrophotography / Physics / Causal theory of reference / Optics / Photography / Causality

penultimate draft; final version forthcoming in Philosophical Quarterly SHOT IN THE DARK NOTES ON PHOTOGRAPHY, CAUSALITY, AND CONTENT MIKAEL PETTERSSON

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Source URL: people.su.se

Language: English - Date: 2012-02-09 05:27:50
148Decision theory / Game theory / Philosophy of science / Microeconomics / Causal decision theory / Evidential decision theory / Utility / Bayesian probability / Expected utility hypothesis / Statistics / Science / Knowledge

Lost memories and useless coins: Revisiting the absentminded driver∗ Wolfgang Schwarz 16 March[removed]Abstract. The puzzle of the absentminded driver combines a version of the

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149Observational study / Philosophy of science / Statistical theory / Design of experiments / Statistical inference / Matching / Propensity score matching / Propensity score / Theory / Statistics / Science / Econometrics

Simplifying Matching Methods for Causal Inference Gary King1 Institute for Quantitative Social Science Harvard University

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Source URL: gking.harvard.edu

Language: English - Date: 2015-01-13 18:35:25
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