Titlebook: Probabilities, Causes and Propensities in Physics; Mauricio Suárez Book 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 Causal inference.Ca

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Book 2011propensity, and their various interrelations, within the context of contemporary physics -- particularly quantum and statistical physics. The philosophical debates and distinctions are firmly grounded upon examples from actual physics, thus exemplifying a robustly empiricist approach. The essays, by

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0166-6991 ists in philosophy and foundations of physics, philosophy of science in general, metaphysics, ontology of physics theories, and philosophy of probability.978-94-007-3461-6978-1-4020-9904-5Series ISSN 0166-6991 Series E-ISSN 2542-8292

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From Metaphysics to Physics and Back: the Example of Causationround of its ‘orthodox’ – hence vague – formulation; (ii) the interpretation-dependence of causal reasoning in quantum mechanics implies different approaches to causality in (the different versions of) GRW and Bohmian formulations.

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Four Theses on Probabilities, Causes, Propensities,ent with many of the claims stated throughout the book. The theory is developed around four different theses concerning respectively: the objective nature of probability in physics, the key role played by transition probabilities in modelling statistical phenomena, the apparent redundancy of philoso

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Probability and Time Symmetry in Classical Markov Processespical examples of time-directed behaviour can be described using time-symmetric transition probabilities. Some current arguments in favour of a distinction between past and future on the basis of probabilistic considerations are thereby seen to be invalid.

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Probability Assignments and the Principle of Indifference. An Examination of Two Eliminative Strategiesophers and scientists alike. This hostility has a twofold motivation. On one hand, there are the well-known inconsistencies (Bertrand paradoxes) to which the use of the principle leads. On the other, there are some general metaphysical and epistemological worries regarding the principle’s support fo

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On Explanation in Retro-causal Interpretations of Quantum Mechanicsin his celebrated theorem, granted some plausible premises any quantum theory will predict the existence of such non-local influences. One of the theorem’s premises is that the probability distribution of the states that systems may assume is independent of the measurements that they undergo at a la