“Common cause” as a principle of national science in Russia

A refinement of the common cause principle

I study the interplay between stochastic dependence and causal relations within the setting of Bayesian networks and in terms of information theory. The application of a recently defined causal information flow measure provides a quantitative refinement of Reichenbach’s common cause principle.

On Reichenbach's Principle of the Common Cause

it has become one of the focal points of the continuing discussion of causation. The paper addresses five questions. Section 1 asks: What does the principle say? And section 2 asks: What is its philosophical significance? The most important question, of course, is this: Is the principle true? To answer that question, however, one must first consider how one might one argue about it at all. One ...

mesuring the staff technology readiness, the case of a multi national chemical company operating in iran

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Enrico Drioli and Development of Membrane Science in Russia

Two Comments on the Common Cause Principle

Until the 1990’s philosophers took it almost for granted that the common cause principle is at odds with quantum theory. Roughly, they argued that a common cause explanation of correlations between four pairs of events leads inevitably to Bell inequalities, and since Bell inequalities are violated in quantum theory, there cannot be a common cause explanation of quantum correlations. Redei and h...