List, Christian and Pivato, Marcus (2015) Emergent chance. The Philosophical Review, 124 (1). pp. 119-152. ISSN 0031-8108
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Abstract
This article offers a new argument for the claim that there can be nondegenerate objective chance in a deterministic world. Using a formal model of the relationship between different levels of description of a system, the article shows how objective chance at a higher level can coexist with its absence at a lower level. Unlike previous arguments for the level-specificity of chance, the present argument shows, in a precise sense, that higher-level chance does not collapse into epistemic probability, despite higher-level properties supervening on lower-level ones. The article demonstrates that the distinction between objective chance and epistemic probability can be drawn, and operationalized, at every level of description. There is, therefore, not a single distinction between objective and epistemic probability but a family of such distinctions
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://philreview.dukejournals.org/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2014 Cornell University |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) |
| Sets: | Departments > Government Departments > Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method Research centres and groups > Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS) |
| Funders: | Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, NSERC |
| Projects: | 262620–2008 |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Feb 2015 09:13 |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/61063/ |
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