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Can fitness differences be a cause of evolution?
causal drift evolution fitness holism organism population selection statistical
2016/6/15
The causal status of fitness and natural selection is increasingly called into doubt in the philosophical literature. For example, Elliott Sober argues that the fitness of individual organisms is holi...
An interventionist account of causation characterizes causal relations in terms of changes resulting from particular interventions. We provide an example of a causal relation for which there does not ...
Non-local common cause explanations for EPR
Bell’s theorem Bohmian mechanics EPR experiment GRW mass density theory local causality non-local causes
2016/6/13
The paper argues that a causal explanation of the correlated outcomes of EPR-type experiments is desirable and possible. It shows how Bohmian mechanics and the GRW mass density theory offer such an ex...
Advocates of the counterfactual approach to causal inference argue that race is not a cause, and this despite the fact that it is commonly treated as such by scientists in many disciplines. I object t...
No-common-cause EPR-like funny business in branching space-times
Reichenbach common cause branching space-times EPR indeterminism superluminal causation space-like related correlation
2011/9/6
There is "no EPR-like funny business" if (contrary to apparent fact) our world is as indeterministic as you wish, but is free from the EPR-like quantum-mechanical phenomena such as is sometimes descri...
Is Personal Insecurity a Cause of Cross-National Differences in the Intensity of Religious Belief?
Cross-National Religious Belief
2009/7/10
The cause of cross-national differences in individual-level religiosity has a rich history of scholarly debate rooted in observations of an apparent decline in religiosity in the modern era. Numerous ...
Measurement Dependence is not Conspiracy: A Common Cause Model of EPR Correlations
Reichenbach´ s Principle of the Common Cause EPR Correlations
2009/6/18
In this paper I assess the adequacy of no-conspiracy conditions present in the usual derivations of the Bell inequality in the context of EPR correlations. First, I look at the EPR correlations from a...
Only countable common cause systems exist
common cause probabilistic causation common cause systems
2009/6/11
In this paper we give a positive answer to a problem posed by G. Hofer-Szabo and M. Redei (2004) regarding the existence of infinite common cause systems (CCSs). An example of a countably infinite CCS...
From Lost Cause to Third-and-Long: College Football and the Civil Religion of the South
Civil Religion the South
2009/6/9
Southerners and non-southerners alike have often remarked that the South was born when Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse in 1865. Defeat and surrender gave birth to the idea of the So...
No-common-cause EPR-like funny business in branching space-times
Reichenbach common cause branching space-times
2008/4/22
There is "no EPR-like funny business" if (contrary to
apparent fact) our world is as indeterministic as you wish,
but is free from the EPR-like quantum-mechanical phenomena
such as is sometimes des...
A partition $\{C_i\}_{i\in I}$ of a Boolean algebra $\cS$ in a probability measure space $(\cS,p)$ is called a Reichenbachian common cause system for the correlated pair $A,B$ of events in $\cS$ if an...
Separate- versus common-common-cause-type derivations of the Bell inequalities
Bell inequality common cause
2008/4/22
Standard derivations of the Bell inequalities assume a common common cause system that is a common screener-off for all correlations and some additional assumptions concerning locality and no-conspira...
Galileo’s Interventionist Notion of “Cause”
Galileo causation interventionism controlled experimentation
2008/4/14
In this essay, I shall take up the theme of Galileo’s notion of cause, which has already received considerable attention. I shall argue that the participants in the debate as it stands have overlooked...
Experimental Realism Defended: How Inference to the Most Likely Cause Might Be Sound
Causal Inference Experimental Realism Scientific epistemology
2008/4/1
On a purely epistemic understanding of experimental realism, manipulation affords a particularly robust kind of causal warrant, which is – like any other warrant – defeasible. I defend a version of Na...
Experimental Realism Defended: How Inference to the Most Likely Cause Might Be Sound
Causal Inference Experimental Realism Scientific epistemology
2011/9/8
On a purely epistemic understanding of experimental realism, manipulation affords a particularly robust kind of causal warrant, which is – like any other warrant – defeasible. I defend a version of Na...