Causes and mixed probabilities
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
- Vol. 4 (1) , 79-88
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02698599008573347
Abstract
In Section 1 I examine the use of probabilistic data to establish causal conclusions in non‐experimental research. In Section 2 I show that the probabilities involved in such research are inhomogeneous ‘mixed’ probabilities. Section 3 then argues that such mixed probabilities are responsible for the way common causes screen off correlations between their joint effects. Section 4 concludes that mixed probabilities are therefore crucial for the nature of the causal relation itself.Keywords
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- Probabilities and CausesThe Journal of Philosophy, 1985