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The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 1998 49(3):469-498; doi:10.1093/bjps/49.3.469
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Black Box Inference: When Should Intervening Variables Be Postulated?

Elliott Sober

Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Madison Madison, WI 53706, USA

An empirical procedure is suggested for testing a model that postulates variables that intervene between observed causes and abserved effects against a model that includes no such postulate. The procedure is applied to two experiments in psychology. One involves a conditioning regimen that leads to response generalization; the other concerns the question of whether chimpanzees have a theory of mind.


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