Mellor on Chance and Causation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8396003 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dorothy Edgington (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 411-433 |
| Publication date | 1997-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0882 • E-ISSN: 1464-3537 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjps/48.3.411 |
| OpenAlex | W2316582019 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Mellor's subject is singular causation between facts, expressed ‘E because C’. His central requirement for causation is that the chance that E if C be greater than the chance that E if ∼C: chc(E)>ch∼c(E). The book is as much about chance as it is about causation. I show that his way of distinguishing chc (E) from the traditional notion of conditional chance leaves than him with a problem about the existence of chQ(P) when Q is false (Section 3); and also that any notion of chance which conforms to the standard calculus has wider application than the causal instances to which Mellor's notion is restricted (Section 8). Other topics discussed may be gleaned from the headings below.
Calculus (dental) · Causation · Epistemology · Mathematical economics · Section (typography) · Subject (documents) · Computer Science · Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge · Mathematics · Medicine · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Philosophy and Theoretical Science
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2021 (20) |
| Highly cited | No |