Titlebook: Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation; Dennis Dieks,Wenceslao J. Gonzalez,Marcel Weber Conference proceedings 2011 Springer Netherland

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Causation, Association and Confirmationation, which is the ratio of the coherence of evidence and the coherence of the evidence conditional on a hypothesis, tracks confirmation. We then show that the causal structure of the evidence and hypothesis can put strong constraints on how coherence in the evidence does or does not translate into confirmation of the hypothesis.

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What’s Wrong with the Pragmatic-Ontic Account of Mechanistic Explanation? notorious counterexamples to many other theories of explanation (e.g., various scenarios of preemption, counting out irrelevant factors etc.). In this contribution, I would like to critically examine a specific account of mechanistic explanation, namely the account of Daniel Sirtes.

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Normativity is the Key to the Difference Between the Human and the Natural Scienceschemistry, biology, geology, engineering, etc. In this paper I would like to give an update of, and a fresh attempt at, the longstanding heated issue whether or not there is a principled difference between the human and the natural sciences.

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Causation, Association and Confirmation we examine the relationships between probabilistic models of all three of these concepts: coherence, confirmation, and explanation. For coherence, we consider Shogenji’s measure of association (deviation from independence). For confirmation, we consider several measures in the literature, and for e

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