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  1. On an information-theoretic model of explanation.James Woodward - 1987 - Philosophy of Science 54 (1):21-44.
    This paper is an assessment of an attempt, by James Greeno, to measure the explanatory power of statistical theories by means of the notion of transmitted information (It). It is argued that It has certain features that are inappropriate in a measure of explanatory power. In particular, given a statistical theory T with explanans variables St and explanandum variables Mj, it is argued that no plausible measure of explanatory power should depend on the probability P(Si) of occurrence of initial conditions (...)
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  • An application of information theory to the problem of the scientific experiment.Massimiliano Badino - 2004 - Synthese 140 (3):355 - 389.
    There are two basic approaches to the problem of induction:the empirical one, which deems that the possibility of induction depends on how theworld was made (and how it works) and the logical one, which considers the formation(and function) of language. The first is closer to being useful for induction, whilethe second is more rigorous and clearer. The purpose of this paper is to create an empiricalapproach to induction that contains the same formal exactitude as the logical approach.This requires: (a) that (...)
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  • Single case propensities and the explanation of particular events.Joseph F. Hanna - 1981 - Synthese 48 (3):409 - 436.
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