Hoefer, Carl (2007) The Third Way on Objective Probability: A Skeptic's Guide to Objective Chance. [Preprint]
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The goal of this paper is to sketch and defend a new interpretation or ‘theory’ of objective chance, one that lets us be sure such chances exist and shows how they can play the roles we traditionally grant them. The account is ‘Humean’ in claiming that objective chances supervene on the totality of actual events, but does not imply or presuppose a Humean approach to other metaphysical issues such as laws or causation. Like Lewis (1994) I take the Principal Principle to be the key to understanding objective chance. After describing the main features of Humean objective chance (HOC), I deduce the validity of PP for Humean chances, and end by exploring the limitations of Humean chance.
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| Additional Information: | Final author's draft, forthcoming in MIND, 2007. This version still has a few very minor errors that will be corrected in the published version. | ||||||
| Keywords: | Probability, Chance, Humeanism, David Lewis, undermining, credence, subjective probability, objective probability, objective chance | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics General Issues > Laws of Nature General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism |
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| Depositing User: | Carl Hoefer | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 05 Jul 2007 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 07 Oct 2010 15:15 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 3415 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics General Issues > Laws of Nature General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism |
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| Date: | July 2007 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/3415 |
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