Christopher R. Hitchcock (hitchcock-c)

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Bibliography

Bartha, Paul and Hitchcock, Christopher R. 1999. “No One Knows the Date or the Hour: An Unorthodox Application of Rev. Bayes’s Theorem.” Philosophy of Science 66(suppl.): S339–353. PSA 1998: Proceedings of the 1998 Biennial Meetings of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part I: Contributed Papers.
Beebee, Helen, Hitchcock, Christopher R. and Menzies, Peter, eds. 2009a. The Oxford Handbook of Causation. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199279739.001.0001.
Beebee, Helen, Hitchcock, Christopher R. and Menzies, Peter. 2009b. “Introduction.” in The Oxford Handbook of Causation, edited by Helen Beebee, Christopher R. Hitchcock, and Peter Menzies, pp. 1–19. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199279739.001.0001.
Beebee, Helen, Hitchcock, Christopher R. and Price, Huw, eds. 2017a. Making a Difference. Essays on the Philosophy of Causation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198746911.001.0001.
Beebee, Helen, Hitchcock, Christopher R. and Price, Huw. 2017b. “Introduction.” in Making a Difference. Essays on the Philosophy of Causation, edited by Helen Beebee, Christopher R. Hitchcock, and Huw Price, pp. 1–13. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198746911.001.0001.
Easwaran, Kenny, Fenton-Glynn, Luke, Hitchcock, Christopher R. and Velasco, Joel D. 2016. “Updating on the Credences of Others: Disagreement, Agreement, and Synergy.” Philosophers’ Imprint 16(11).
Fitelson, Branden and Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2011. “Probabilistic Measures of Causal Strength.” in Causality in the Sciences, edited by Phyllis Illari, Federica Russo, and Jon Williamson, pp. 600–627. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Green, Mitchell S. and Hitchcock, Christopher R. 1991. “Reflection on Reflection: van Fraassen on Belief.” Unpublished MS, Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh.
Hájek, Alan and Hitchcock, Christopher R., eds. 2016a. The Oxford Handbook of Probability and Philosophy. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199607617.001.0001.
Hájek, Alan and Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2016b. “Probability for Everyone – Even Philosophers.” in The Oxford Handbook of Probability and Philosophy, edited by Alan Hájek and Christopher R. Hitchcock, pp. 5–31. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199607617.001.0001.
Halpern, Joseph Y. and Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2010. “Actual Causation and the Art of Modeling.” in Heuristics, Probability and Causality. A Tribute to Judea Pearl, edited by Rina Dechter, Héctor Geffner, and Joseph Y. Halpern, pp. 383–406. Tributes n. 11. London: King’s College Publications.
Halpern, Joseph Y. and Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2013. “Compact Representations of Extended Causal Models.” Cognitive Science 37(6): 986–1010.
Halpern, Joseph Y. and Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2015. “Graded Causation and Defaults.” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 66(2): 413–457, doi:10.1093/bjps/axt050.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 1992. “Asymmetry and Overdetermination in Swain’s Counterfactual Theory of Causation.” Auslegung. A Journal of Philosophy 18(1): 17–25.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 1995. “Salmon on Explanatory Relevance.” Philosophy of Science 62(2): 304–320.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 1997. “Probabilistic Causation.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall1997/entries/causation-probabilistic/.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 1998. “The Common Cause Principle in Historical Linguistics.” Philosophy of Science 65: 425–447.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 1999. “Contrastive Explanation and the Demons of Determinism.” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 50: 585–612.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2001a. “The Intransitivity of Causation Revealed by Equations and Graphs.” The Journal of Philosophy 98(6): 273–299, doi:10.2307/2678432.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2001b. “Review of Pearl (2000).” The Philosophical Review 110(4): 639–641.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2001c. “Causal Generalizations and Good Advice.” The Monist 84(2): 218–241.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2002. “Probabilistic Causation.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2002/entries/causation-probabilistic/.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2003. “Unity and Plurality in the Concept of Causation.” in The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism. Re-evaluation and future perspectives, edited by Friedrich Stadler, pp. 217–224. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook n. 10. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Hitchcock, Christopher R., ed. 2004a. Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science. Contemporary Debates in Philosophy n. 2. Boston, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2004b. “Do All and Only Causes Raise the Probabilities of Effects?” in Causation and Counterfactuals, edited by John David Collins, Ned Hall, and Laurie A. Paul, pp. 403–418. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, doi:10.7551/mitpress/1752.001.0001.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2004c. “Beauty and the Bets.” Synthese 139(3): 405–420.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2004d. “Introduction: What is the Philosophy of Science?” in Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science, edited by Christopher R. Hitchcock, pp. 1–19. Contemporary Debates in Philosophy n. 2. Boston, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2004e. “Routes, Processes and Chance-Lowering Causes.” in Cause and Chance: Causation in an Indeterministic World, edited by Phil Dowe and Paul Noordhof, pp. 138–151. London: Routledge.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2005. “Causation: Philosophy of Science.” in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Donald M. Borchert, 2nd ed. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2006. “Conceptual Analysis Naturalized: A Metaphilosophical Case Study.” The Journal of Philosophy 103(9): 427–451.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2007a. “Three Concepts of Causation.” Philosophy Compass 2(3): 508–516.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2007b. “Prevention, Preemption, and the Principle of Sufficient Reason.” The Philosophical Review 116(4): 495–532, doi:10.1215/00318108-2007-012.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2007c. “What Russell Got Right.” in Causation, Physics and the Constitution of Reality: Russell’s Republic Revisited, edited by Huw Price and Richard Corry, pp. 45–65. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2007d. “What’s Wrong with Neuron Diagrams?” in Causation and Explanation, edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O’Rourke, and Harry S. Silverstein, pp. 69–92. Topics in Contemporary Philosophy n. 3. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, doi:10.7551/mitpress/1753.003.0006.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2007e. “The Lovely and the Probable [on Lipton (2004)].” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74(2): 433–440.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2007f. “On the Importance of Causal Taxonomy.” in Causal Learning: Psychology, Philosophy and Computation, edited by Alison Gopnik and Laura Schulz, pp. 101–118. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2007g. “How to Be a Causal Pluralist.” in Thinking about Causes. From Greek Philosophy to Modern Physics, edited by Peter K. Machamer and Gereon Wolters, pp. 200–221. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2008. “Causation.” in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, edited by Stathis Psillos and Martin Curd, pp. 317–326. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2009a. “Problems for the Conserved Quantity Theory: Counterexamples, Circularity, and Redundancy.” The Monist 92(1): 72–93.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2009b. “Structural Equations and Causation: Six Counterexamples.” Philosophical Studies 144(3): 391–401, doi:10.1007/s11098-008-9216-2.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2009c. “Causal Modelling.” in The Oxford Handbook of Causation, edited by Helen Beebee, Christopher R. Hitchcock, and Peter Menzies, pp. 299–314. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199279739.001.0001.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2010. “Probabilistic Causation.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2010/entries/causation-probabilistic/.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2011a. “Trumping and Contrastive Causation.” Synthese 181(2): 227–240.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2011b. “Counterfactual Availability and Causal Judgment.” in Understanding Counterfactuals, Understanding Causation. Issues in Philosophy and Psychology, edited by Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack, and Sarah R. Beck, pp. 171–185. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590698.001.0001.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2012. “Events and Times: A Case Study in Means-Ends Metaphysics.” Philosophical Studies 160(1): 79–96.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2013a. “What is the ‘Cause’ in Causal Decision Theory?” Erkenntnis 78(suppl., 1): 129–146.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2013b. “Contrastive Explanation.” in Contrastivism in Philosophy, edited by Martijn Blaauw, pp. 11–34. Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy n. 39. London: Routledge.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2015. “Lewis on Causation.” in A Companion to David Lewis, edited by Barry C. Loewer and Jonathan Schaffer, pp. 295–311. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley; Sons, Inc., doi:10.1002/9781118398593.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2016a. “Probabilistic Causation.” in The Oxford Handbook of Probability and Philosophy, edited by Alan Hájek and Christopher R. Hitchcock, pp. 815–832. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199607617.001.0001.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2016b. “Conditioning, Intervening, and Decision.” Synthese 193(4): 1157–1176.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2017. “Actual Causation: What’s the Use?” in Making a Difference. Essays on the Philosophy of Causation, edited by Helen Beebee, Christopher R. Hitchcock, and Huw Price, pp. 116–131. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198746911.001.0001.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2018a. “Causal Models.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2018/entries/causal-models/.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2018b. “Probabilistic Causation.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2018/entries/causation-probabilistic/.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. and Knobe, Joshua. 2009. “Cause and Norm.” The Journal of Philosophy 106(11): 587–612, doi:10.5840/jphil20091061128.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. and Rédei, Miklós. 2020. “Reichenbach’s Common Cause Principle.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2020/entries/physics-Rpcc/.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. and Salmon, Wesley C. 2001. “Statistical Explanation.” in A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, edited by William H. Newton-Smith, pp. 470–479. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9781405164481.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. and Velasco, Joel D. 2014. “Evolutionary and Newtonian forces.” Ergo 1(2): 39–77.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. and Woodward, James F. 2003. “Explanatory Generalizations, Part II: Plumbing Explanatory Depth.” Noûs 37(2): 181–199.
Woodward, James F. and Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2002. “Explanatory Generalizations, Part I: A Counterfactual Account.” Noûs 36(1): 1–24.

Further References

Lipton, Peter. 1991. Inference to the Best Explanation. London: Routledge. Second edition: Lipton (2004).
Lipton, Peter. 2004. Inference to the Best Explanation. 2nd ed. London: Routledge. First edition: Lipton (1991).
Pearl, Judea. 2000. Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.