The epistemic account of ceteris paribus conditions
| Type of Publication: | Journal article |
| URI (citable link): | http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-0-265386 |
| Author: | Spohn, Wolfgang |
| Year of publication: | 2014 |
| Published in: | European Journal for Philosophy of Science ; 4 (2014), 3. - pp. 385-408. - ISSN 1879-4912. - eISSN 1879-4920 |
| DOI (citable link): | https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13194-014-0093-6 |
| Summary: |
The paper focuses on interpreting ceteris paribus conditions as normal conditions. After discussing six basic problems for the explication of normal conditions and seven interpretations that do not well solve those problems I turn to what I call the epistemic account. According to it the normal is, roughly, the not unexpected. This is developed into a rigorous constructive account of normal conditions, which makes essential use of ranking theory and in particular allows to explain the phenomenon of multiply exceptional conditions. Finally, this static account is extended to a schematic dynamic model of how we may learn about those normal and (multiply) exceptional conditions.
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| Subject (DDC): | 150 Psychology |
| Keywords: | Ceteris paribus laws, Normal conditions, Multiple exceptionality, Conditional belief, Ranking theory |
| Link to License: | Terms of use |
| Bibliography of Konstanz: | Yes |
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SPOHN, Wolfgang, 2014. The epistemic account of ceteris paribus conditions. In: European Journal for Philosophy of Science. 4(3), pp. 385-408. ISSN 1879-4912. eISSN 1879-4920. Available under: doi: 10.1007/s13194-014-0093-6
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