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Author Wronski, Leszek, author

Title Reichenbach's paradise : constructing the realm of probabilstic common "causes" / Leszek Wroński ; managing editor, Anna Michalska ; language editor Sara Tavares
Published Warsaw [Poland] ; Berlin [Germany] : De Gruyter Open, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (125 pages) : illustrations
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures / List of Tables -- Acknowledgments / Introduction -- 1 The Principle of the Common Cause: Its Shapes and Content -- 2 Screening Off and Explanation: Formal Properties -- 3 The Principle of the Common Cause and the Bell Inequalities -- 4 The Principle of the Common Cause and the Causal Markov Condition -- 5 Causal Closedness -- 6 Causal Completability -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Since its first introduction by Hans Reichenbach, many philosophers have claimed to refute the common cause principle. The situation is not so straightforward, though: validity of the principle remains an open question. The book traces different formulations of the principle, and provides proofs of a few pertinent theorems, settling the relevant questions in various probability spaces. It offers both philosophical insight and mathematical rigor
Analysis Common Cause Principle, Reichenbach, Probability, Causality
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 28, 2015)
Subject Reichenbach, Hans, 1891-1953.
SUBJECT Reichenbach, Hans, 1891-1953 fast
Subject PHILOSOPHY / General.
Form Electronic book
Author Michalska, Anna, editor
Tavares, Sara, editor
ISBN 3110372711
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