Coherence and Common Causes
Against Relevance-Sensitive Measures of Coherence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8396245 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jakob Koscholke (0000-0003-2730-1295, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, corresponding author), Michael Schippers (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 771-785 |
| Publication date | 2019-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| 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/axx003 |
| OpenAlex | W2963881192 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 27 |
Changing weather conditions and barometer changes usually coincide. Accordingly, the propositions that my barometer falls and that the weather conditions deteriorate are quite coherent—especially under the assumption that there is a drop in atmospheric pressure. Nevertheless, scenarios like these involving common causes turn out to be highly problematic for a prominent class of probabilistic coherence measures, namely, those explicating coherence based on the idea of relevance-sensitivity. In this article, we show that none of these measures accords with the intuition that in the light of a common cause, two propositions referring to the cause’s effects should turn out to be coherent. This result casts doubts on the view that these measures can be considered proper explications of the concept of coherence. 1. Introduction2. Relevance-Sensitive Coherence Measures3. Common Causes, Screening-off, and Coherence4. Discussion 4.1. Multiple explications of coherence4.2. Conditionalization versus set expansion5. Conclusion
Barometer · Cognitive psychology · Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) · Epistemology · Geography · Intuition · Meteorology · Political science · Probabilistic logic · Relevance (law) · Statistics · Computer Science · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Psychology
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |