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  1. Probabilistic causation and causal processes: A critique of Lewis.Peter Menzies - 1989 - Philosophy of Science 56 (4):642-663.
    This paper examines a promising probabilistic theory of singular causation developed by David Lewis. I argue that Lewis' theory must be made more sophisticated to deal with certain counterexamples involving pre-emption. These counterexamples appear to show that in the usual case singular causation requires an unbroken causal process to link cause with effect. I propose a new probabilistic account of singular causation, within the framework developed by Lewis, which captures this intuition.
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  • The anthropic principle and many-worlds cosmologies.Quentin Smith - 1985 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 63 (3):336 – 348.
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  • (1 other version)Causes, Conditionals, and Times.John L. Pollock - 1982 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 63 (3):275-288.
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  • The probabilistic argument from evil.Alvin Plantinga - 1979 - Philosophical Studies 35 (1):1 - 53.
    First I state and develop a probabilistic argument for the conclusion that theistic belief is irrational or somehow noetically improper. Then I consider this argument from the point of view of the major contemporary accounts of probability, Concluding that none of them offers the atheologian aid and comfort.
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  • Probabilistic causality and Simpson's paradox.Richard Otte - 1985 - Philosophy of Science 52 (1):110-125.
    This paper discusses Simpson's paradox and the problem of positive relevance in probabilistic causality. It is argued that Cartwright's solution to Simpson's paradox fails because it ignores one crucial form of the paradox. After clarifying different forms of the paradox, it is shown that any adequate solution to the paradox must allow a cause to be both a negative cause and a positive cause of..
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  • A critique of Suppes' theory of probabilistic causality.Richard Otte - 1981 - Synthese 48 (2):167 - 189.
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  • (1 other version)Mind, brain, and causation.J. L. Mackie - 1979 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 4 (1):19-29.
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  • 3.Wesley C. Salmon - 1984 - In Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World. Princeton University Press. pp. 78-109.
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  • Probabilistic causality: Reply to John dupré.Ellery Eells - 1987 - Philosophy of Science 54 (1):105-114.
    John Dupré (1984) has recently criticized the theory of probabilistic causality developed by, among others, Good (1961-62), Suppes (1970), Cartwright (1979), and Skyrms (1980). He argues that there is a tension or incompatibility between one of its central requirements for the presence of a causal connection, on the one hand, and a feature of the theory pointed out by Elliott Sober and me (1983), on the other. He also argues that the requirement just alluded to should be given up. I (...)
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  • Old problems for a new theory: Mayo on Giere's theory of causation.Ellery Eells & Elliott Sober - 1987 - Philosophical Studies 52 (3):291 - 307.
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