Causation and physics
Process causation and quantum physics
... are considered as causal? In the first instance, Salmon appeals to the theory of special relativity and relies on the possibility of physical transmission of information at velocities less than the speed of light to make ...
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Causation With a Human Face
... elucidating the differences among these possibilities. It is interesting that the same inference problem seems to arise much less often in fundamental physics. While one can think of possible exceptions (e.g., ...
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Causation: Further Themes
... of causation (Price and Weslake 2009; Ismael 2012), causal relations only appear from the perspective of the deliberating agent who goes around in the world deciding on one thing in order to achieve ...for ...
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A Deliberative Approach to Causation
... of causation—in this sense, it offers an independent ...relating causation to evidence, the deliberative account explains why causation matters, how it relates to fundamental laws, and how it fits ...
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Causation as Folk Science
... classical physics still admits acausal ...of causation and the flourishing literature of counterexamples suggests no general agreement even on what it means to say that ...
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Hume, Newton and Malebranche on Causation
... of causation are inadequate; yet differing in the correctives they offer to relieve those earli- er ...explain causation as a natural phe- nomenon that can be explained by his theory of belief ...of ...
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A difference-making account of causation
... A final remark concerns the requirement of background dependence in the difference-making account. Since this implies a ceteris-paribus character for all causal laws, those scientific laws that claim to be truly ...
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Mental Causation and Neural Mechanisms
... mental causation/explanation fit with (or fail to fit with or are undermined by) claims about causation by neural mechanisms – have been matters of intense debate within the philosophical literature over ...
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The dual nature of causation : two necessary and jointly sufficient conditions
... However, simple charity-based descriptivism does yield exactly the right results when applied to theoretical terms, including natural kind terms, since these terms are intended to carve at the joints. To illustrate this ...
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Causation in Science
... in physics – or at least that they play no “fundamental” ...to physics contexts (and presumably elsewhere as ...in physics, they are unnecessary in the sense that whatever scientifically respectable ...
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Social Mechanisms and Social Causation
... 2) Even though human agency plays a constitutive role in social mechanisms (Manicas 2006, 2), social mechanisms have explanatory functions, since they are seen as hypothetical causal patterns of behaviour. It will then ...
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Locke's Ideational Account of Causation
... Above I have discussed how the text of the Essay, in II.26 and elsewhere, supports an ideational reading; below I want to offer some philosophical considerations in favor of the ideational reading. By philosophical ...
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Theories of causation
... the instantiation of a certain property in the brain, the causal efficacy of the pain being located in the electrical impulses travelling from the central nervous system to receptors in the muscles, and so on. ...
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Medical Causation Testimony in Texas: Possibility Versus Probability
... Medical Causation Testimony in Texas Possibility Versus Probability SMU Law Review Volume 23 | Issue 4 Article 2 1969 Medical Causation Testimony in Texas Possibility Versus Probability David C Mussle[.] ...
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Why Decentralization ? The Puzzle of causation
... Another debatable question is how the trend is related to globalization? Indeed there seems to be a correlation between the trend toward globalization and decentralization, but does this correlation necessarily mean ...
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Moore, Causation, Counterfactuals, and Responsibility
... understanding causation using counterfactuals may be possible were we to get a good understanding of counterfactuals (a counterfactual if ever there was ...
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Asymmetrical Causation and Criminal Desistance
... We make the following assertions: 1 that the causes of desistance likely differ from the causes of crime; 2 that knowledge of the true causes of desistance will be easier to obtain than [r] ...
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Toxic Tort Litigation and the Causation Element: Is There Any Hope of Recognition
... Toxic Tort Litigation and the Causation Element Is There Any Hope of Recognition SMU Law Review Volume 40 | Issue 3 Article 3 1986 Toxic Tort Litigation and the Causation Element Is There Any Hope of[.] ...
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Toxic Tort Causation in Asbestos Claims The Texas Supreme Court Creates New Causation Requirement and Leaves Numerous Victims without a Remedy
... Toxic Tort Causation in Asbestos Claims The Texas Supreme Court Creates New Causation Requirement and Leaves Numerous Victims without a Remedy SMU Law Review Volume 61 | Issue 2 Article 7 2008 Toxic T[.] ...
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Oil and gold: correlation or causation?
... Le, Thai-Ha and Chang, Youngho Nanyang Technological University... - NOP NOP NOP QRPNOP SNOP SNOP SNOP.[r] ...
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