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Teacher(s)
Language
English
Prerequisites
The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.
Content
The parts will be of unequal lengths
1. Scientific representation: models, theories, idealization.
2. Philosophical reflection on determinism and probabilities.
3. Modern conception of probability: axiomatisation, origins, conditional probability, central limit theorem.
4. Modelling causality in social sciences.
5. Philosophical theories of causality.
6. Causality and explanation.
Evaluation methods
Oral exam
Online resources
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Teaching materials
- Moodle site
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