Chance and Necessity: From Humean Supervenience to Humean Projection

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Probability abounds in the natural and social sciences. Yet, science strives for objectivity. Scientists are not pleased when told that probability is just opinion and there is no more sense to it. They are prone to believe in objective probabilities or chances. This is an essay about how to understand them.

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Spohn, W. (2010). Chance and Necessity: From Humean Supervenience to Humean Projection. In Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (Vol. 284, pp. 101–131). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3615-5_5

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