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The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 2003 54(2):309-317; doi:10.1093/bjps/54.2.309
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Making Time Stand Still: A Response to Sober's Counter-Example to the Principle of the Common Cause

Daniel Steel1

1 Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University, 503 S. Kedzie Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824–1032, United States. steel{at}msu.edu

In a recent article, Elliot Sober responds to challenges to a counter-example that he posed some years earlier to the Principle of the Common Cause (PCC). I agree that Sober has indeed produced a genuine counter-example to the PCC, but argue against the methodological moral that Sober wishes to draw from it. Contrary to Sober, I argue that the possibility of exceptions to the PCC does not undermine its status as a central assumption for methods that endeavor to draw causal conclusions from statistical data.

1 The PCC and the counter-example

2 Making non-stationary time series stand still

3 Sober's alternative


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