The Place of Probability in Science: In Honor of Ellery Eells (1953-2006)

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To clarify and illuminate the place of probability in science Ellery Eells and James H. Fetzer have brought together some of the most distinguished philosophers ...

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The Possibility of Infinitesimal Chances.Martin Barrett
Objective Probability Theory Theory.Ellery Eells
Propensity trajectories, preemption, and the identity of events.Ellery Eells
Is Evolution An Optimizing Process?James H. Fetzer
Propensities and frequencies: Inference to the best explanation.James H. Fetzer
Propensities and Frequencies.James H. Fetzer
Probability and objectivity in deterministic and indeterministic situations.James H. Fetzer
Probabilistic Metaphysics.James H. Fetzer
Miraculous consilience of quantum mechanics.Malcolm R. Forster
Probabilistic causality and causal generalizations.Daniel M. Hausman
How Bayesian Confirmation Theory Handles the Paradox of the Ravens.Branden Fitelson & James Hawthorne
Learning to Network.Brian Skyrms & Robin Pemantle
At the Memorial Gathering for Ellery Eells.Elliott Sober
Evolutionary theory and the reality of macro probabilities.Elliott Sober
Probabilities in decision rules.Paul Weirich

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