Reiss, Julian (2007) Time series, nonsense correlations and the principle of the common cause. In: Russo, Federica and Williamson, Jon, (eds.) Causality and Probability in the Sciences. Texts in Philosophy (5). College Publications, London, UK, pp. 179-196. ISBN 1904987354
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This paper examines some recent defences of the principle of the common cause (PCC) against Elliott Sober’s famous counterexample. There are two lines of attack: attempts to defuse the counterexample, that is, to show that the scenario described by Sober only apparently conflicts with the PCC; and attempts to demonstrate that the counterexample has no practical consequences. I show in this paper that there are problems with both strategies. In response, I formulate an alternative version of the principle that avoids the known counterexamples and that makes its status as fallible epistemic principle explicit.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Official URL: | http://www.collegepublications.co.uk/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2007 College Publications |
| Divisions: | CPNSS |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) Q Science > Q Science (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Jun 2011 11:04 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 16:57 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/36503 |
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