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Chance in the world : a Humean guide to objective chance / Carl Hoefer

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Hoefer, Carl
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Physical Description
xxiv, 257 pages ; 22 cm.

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Machine generated contents note: 1.Metaphysical Preliminaries -- 1.1.Humean Objective Chance (HOC): A First Sketch -- 1.2.The Humean Mosaic -- 1.3.The Dialectics of Primitive Chance -- 1.4.Chance as Hypothetical Infinite-Run Frequency: Propensities Made Respectable? -- 1.5.Summing Up -- 2.From Lewisian Chance to Humean Chance -- 2.1.Principal Principle (PP) -- 2.2.Time and Chance -- 2.3.Lewis's Best System Analysis (BSA) of Laws and Chance -- 2.4.Chance and Determinism -- 2.5.Chance and Credence -- 2.6.Summing Up -- 3.Humean Objective Chance -- 3.1.The Basic Features -- 3.2.Examples -- 3.3.The Best System of Chances -- 3.4.More about the Contents of the Best System -- 3.5.Summing Up -- 4.Deducing the Principal Principle -- 4.1.Deducing the Reasonableness of PP -- 4.2.PP and the Epistemology of HOC -- 4.3.Other Accounts and PP -- 4.4.Summing Up -- 5.Undermining -- 5.1.Undermining--What Is It? -- 5.2.Is the Contradiction Real? -- 5.3.The Lewis-Hall Solution -- 5.4.Independence for Humeans -- 5.5.The NP Solution Redeemed -- 5.6.Summing Up -- 6.Macro-Level and Micro-Level Chances -- 6.1.A Chance for All Setups? -- 6.2.Epistemology of Micro-Derived Chances -- 6.3.Micro-Derived Chances and PP -- 6.4.Summing Up -- 7.Humean Chance in Physics (coauthored with Roman Frigg) -- 7.1.Introduction -- 7.2.Classical Statistical Mechanics -- 7.3.Quantum Chances -- 7.4.Summing Up -- 8.Chance and Causation -- 8.1.A Reductive Relation? -- 8.2.Bob's Great Presentation -- 8.3.The Cause-Credence Principle -- 8.4.More on Causation -- 8.5.Summing Up.
Summary
Whether something happens randomly, by chance; or from a series of events.
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9780190907419 (cloth : alk. paper)
019090741X
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Renee Cohen Friedman and Robert S. Friedman Libraries Endowment
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