Explanation and Causation
Introduction: Scientific Explanation Beyond Causation
... of explanation. The guiding idea is that although causation is certainly part of the truth about scientific explanation, it is unlikely to be the full ...‘beyond causation’ as these ...
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Introduction: Scientific Explanation Beyond Causation
... of explanation. The guiding idea is that although causation is certainly part of the truth about scientific explanation, it is unlikely to be the full ...‘beyond causation’ as these ...
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Explanation Beyond Causation? New Directions in the Philosophy of Scientific Explanation
... understood as causal explanations. Lewis (1986) and, more recently, Skow (2014) have presented one prominent attempt for spelling out this strategy. The causal accounts I have referred to earlier require identifying the ...
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Explanation, unification, and what chemistry gets from causation
... What would a Kitcherian science without causes look like? Given Kitcher's view of causation, losing causation requires a small alteration in our psychology. We would no longer project any of our explanatory ...
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Explanation, prediction, causation – an unholy trinity? Appreciative comments on Philosophy and Methods in Political Science
... crux of adjudicating good from bad explanation. I explore the implications of such a position and D K D Philosophy and Methods in Political Science is a most important book which is surely destined to become ...
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Study of Victimization؛Causation and Explanation About Efficiency of Codes of the Elderlies in Iranian Criminal Law
... the explanation of bright and dark corners of elderly victimization" and therefore in this regard, several questions are raised that we will seek to ...
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PHIL 4911/5901: Causation and Explanation
... Grade Disputes If you believe that a grade on any specific assignment was in error, or unfair, you should resubmit that assignment, along with a brief cover note detailing those prima facie errors, or disagreement, ...
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Folk intuitions of Actual Causation: A Two-Pronged Debunking Explanation
... actual causation beyond the realm of human action, the results from the causal modeling provide key, strong support for this main claim: background Gaia beliefs do indeed play a direct role in generating causal ...
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Theories of causation
... Davidson has done the most to argue for events as a fundamental category of entities. He identifies five roles (see his '80b for a summary) for such entities to fill. Firstly, he claims that any satisfactory theory of ...
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Synopsis of Causation
... better explanation can be offered by the comprehensive neurovascular theory, which is based on studies of cerebral blood flow, magnetic resonance imaging and other ...
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Activities and Causation
... Some people would have us get necessity by somehow adding conditions on the correlations or varying correlations. It is well known that no degree of correlation between two entities will give rise to any form of ...
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Causation in Biology: Stability, Specificity, and the Choice of Levels of Explanation
... (2.1) Lewis’ writing the letter L caused X’s grandchildren to exist and to do A. Given the facts just specified, it follows from Lewis’ own theory of causation, as well as the account specified in M, that (2.1) is ...
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Causation, complexity, and the concert: the pragmatics of causal explanation in international relations
... historical explanation cannot end ...an explanation of the peacefulness of the actual Concert system is that it does not offer the kind of explanation that most people interested in that topic will ...
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Kim on Causation and Mental Causation
... of causation and its relata as forming “the Great Chain of Causes”—a view in which reality, and the micro-physical realm in particular, is naturally carved into events ordered by the causal relation; for every ...
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Causation
... Cases like these are perplexing for theories of causation that suppose that causal relata must be events. How many events occur when three people step into a boat or when a hammer hits a chestnut? Such questions ...
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On the optimality of negligence and causation standards in cases of uncertain causation
... To make our points, we closely follow Shavell (1985) in the sense that we adapt his formalization of uncertainty over causation, and we also assume that the value of the injurer’s activity is private information. ...
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Synopsis of Causation
... It is a severe, unstable disease that may appear as the first manifestation of psoriasis but usually occurs in patients with previous chronic disease.. Precipitating factors include sy[r] ...
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Causation of infection
... during 1886 - 1903. Viruses, as we understand them today are at the threshold of life in their design and function. They are non-cellular packages of protein and genetic material lacking any physiological material of ...
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Synopsis of Causation
... A further review in 2001 covering the association between multiple sclerosis and varicella-zoster virus concluded that there was large variability in the quality of evidence and no sub[r] ...
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Synopsis of Causation
... From this it was estimated that the specific risk of developing mesothelioma from exposure to the three most common commercial forms of asbestos are 1:100:500 for chrysotile (white as[r] ...
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