How chance explains

MT Hicks, A Wilson - Noûs, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
… , and/or that, the setup explains the outcome. … , that chances don't explain particular events,
in section 2. In section 3, we defend the second component of the view, that chances explain

How chance explains.

M Townsen Hicks, A Wilson - Nous, 2023 - search.ebscohost.com
… of the view, that chances don’t explain particular events, in section 2. In section 3, we defend
the second component of the view, that chances explain these first-order explanatory facts. …

Chance, possibility, and explanation

N Emery - The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2015 - journals.uchicago.edu
chance has a prima facie obligation to either capture this apparent connection between
chance and possibility or explain … sorts of beings we are and how we are situated in spacetime …

Chance

I Levi - Philosophical Topics, 1990 - JSTOR
… Sometimes we are concerned to explain how the occurrence of an event is possible and
sometimes to explain why such an occurrence is not merely possible but is unsurprising. To …

Where are the chances?

K Elliott - Synthese, 2021 - Springer
… or to describe how much radioactive … chance process—but how could those probabilities
explain why radioactive material decays without also accurately describing genuine chance

On what we know about chance

F Arntzenius, N Hall - The British Journal for the Philosophy …, 2003 - journals.uchicago.edu
… we will explain, with much weaker reductionist claims), and the resolution of the conflict
via NP. Then, in §3, we show how the trick that yields NP can also be used to construct ‘chances’ …

Perspective—Chance explanations in the management sciences

J Denrell, C Fang, C Liu - Organization Science, 2015 - pubsonline.informs.org
… Here, we review how chance models based on the above theoretical mechanisms have
been used to explain important empirical regularities in different subfields in the management …

Chance as an explanatory factor in evolutionary biology

T Shanahan - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 1991 - JSTOR
… An examination of their biologies shows how the concepts of 'chance' used cohere with their
… thought to require explanation is explained without recourse to the notion of 'chance' factors. …

Chance and degrees of belief

DH Mellor - What? Where? When? Why? Essays on Induction …, 1982 - Springer
… There need to be good reasons for not identifying chance with frequency. Unlike Salmon, I …
account of chance, one which, amongst other things, explains how it does relate to frequency. …

[图书][B] The empire of chance: How probability changed science and everyday life

G Gigerenzer, Z Swijtink, T Porter, L Daston, J Beatty… - 1990 - books.google.com
… (see 1.5; 8.3); chance as "absence of design" played a seminal role in evolutionary biology
(see 4.3). This book documents how supple the bonds linking philosophical and probabilistic …