▽Reichenbach’s Common Cause Principle
●05/28 09:12
The Common Cause Principle was introduced by Hans Reichenbach, in The Direction of Time, which was published posthumously in 1956. Suppose that two events A and Bare positively correlated: ￥(p(A￥cap B)>p(A)p(B)￥). Suppose,moreover, that neither event is a cause of the other. Then,Reichenbach’s Common Cause Principle (RCCP) states that Aand B will have a common cause that renders them cond

▽Physicalism
●05/26 23:46
Setting aside what it is properly called, the thesis of physicalism is often described as an extremely old, even ancient, thesis. The first sentence of Friedrich Lange’s The History of Materialism, which was the standard work on the subject in the 19th century is: “Materialism is as old as philosophy,but not older” (1925, 3). What Lange has in mind is the pre-Socratic philosopher

▽Scientific Explanation
●05/11 11:01
First published Fri May 9, 2003; substantive revision Mon May 10, 2021
Issues concerning scientific explanation have been a focus of philosophical attention from Pre-Socratic times through the modern period. However, modern discussion really begins with the development of the Deductive-Nomological (DN) model. This model has had many advocates (including Popper 1959, Braithwaite 1953, Gardiner,1959

▽The Kochen-Specker Theorem
●02/23 15:31
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▽David Hume
●02/09 10:57
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Whether ‘tis possible for him, from his own imagination, to … raise up to himself the idea of that particular shade,tho’ it had never been convey’d to him by his senses? I believe there are few but will be of opinion that he can; and this may serve as a proof, that the simple ideas are not always deriv’d from the correspon