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Unboxing the Concepts in Newcomb’s Paradox:Causation,Prediction,Decision in Causal Knowledge Patterns
evidential vs causal decision theory Newcomb’s paradox Bayes nets causal models interventionist account of causation
2016/6/15
In Nozick’s rendition of the decision situation given in Newcomb’s Paradox dominance and the principle of maximum expected utility recommend different strategies. While evidential decision theory (EDT...
Causation,Intervention and Agency—Woodward on Menzies and Price
Causation agency Woodward interventionism manipulation
2016/6/15
In his influential book 'Making Things Happen' (Oxford, 2003) and in other places, Jim Woodward has noted some affinities between his own account of causation and that of Menzies and Price (‘Causation...
Emergence,closure and inter-level causation in biological systems
Emergence biological organisation downward causation constraints
2016/6/14
In this paper, we advocate the idea that an adequate explanation of biological systems requires appealing to organisational closure as an emergent causal regime. We first develop a theoretical justifi...
Causal Foundationalism,Physical Causation,and Difference-Making
Causation Difference-Making Physical Causation Causal Foundationalism
2016/6/13
An influential tradition in the philosophy of causation has it that all token causal facts are, or are reducible to, facts about difference-making. Challenges to this tradition have typically focused ...
Is There High-Level Causation?
Causation Special Sciences Thermodynamics Ceteris Paribus Laws Minutiae Rectus Laws
2016/6/13
The discovery of high-level causal relations seems a central activity of the special sciences. Those same sciences are less successful in formulating strict laws. If causation must be underwritten by ...
Relativity,Quantum Entanglement,Counterfactuals,and Causation
Causation Counterfactuals Relativity Entanglement
2016/6/13
We investigate whether standard counterfactual analyses of causation (CACs) imply that the outcomes of space-like separated measurements on entangled particles are causally related. While it has somet...
A Relic of a Bygone Age?Causation,Time Symmetry and the Directionality Argument
Causation direction of time time asymmetry time symmetry time reversal
2016/6/13
Bertrand Russell famously argued that causation is not part of the fundamental physical description of the world, describing the notion of cause as "a relic of a bygone age." This paper assesses one o...
Developmental causation and the problem of homology
developmental causation evo-devo homology trait individuation trait inheritance
2016/6/12
While it is generally agreed that the concept of homology refers to individuated traits that have been inherited from common ancestry, we still lack an adequate account of trait individuation or inher...
Introduction to Special Issue on 'Actual Causation'
Causation Actual Causation Causal Models Structural Equations Causal Graphs Counterfactual Theories of Causation Regularity Theories of Causation Manipulationist Theories of Causation Interventions Psychology of Causation Causal Decision Theory Functional Theories of Causation
2016/6/12
An actual cause of some token effect is itself a (distinct) token event (or fact, or state of affairs, …) that helped to bring about that effect. The notion of an actual cause is different from that o...
Causation,Chance and the Rational Significance of Supernatural Evidence
Causation chance evidential decision theory causal decision theory David Lewis
2016/5/31
Newcomb problems turn on a tension between two principles of choice: roughly, a principle sensitive to the causal features of the relevant situation, and a principle sensitive only to evidential facto...
Causation and evidence-based practice-an ontological review
causation dispositions evidence-based practice health science ontology philosophy
2016/5/30
This paper explores the nature of causation within the framework of evidence-based practice (EBP) for health care. The aims of the paper were first to define and evaluate how causation is presently ac...
No Levels,No Problems:Downward Causation in Neuroscience
level mechanism composition scale downward causation neuroscience
2016/5/30
I show that the recent account of levels in neuroscience proposed by Bechtel and Craver is unsatisfactory, since it fails to provide a plausible criterion for being at the same level and is incompatib...
Causation:Many Words,One Thing?
causality pluralism monism inferentialism causalidad pluralismo monismo inferencialismo
2016/5/30
How many notions of cause are there? The causality literature is witnessing a flourishing of pluralist positions. Here I focus on a recent debate on whether interpreting causality in terms of inferent...
Cognition and Causation as Universal Phenomenom
Cognition consciousness causation emergence
2015/7/29
A comment on the universality of all things.
A theory of causation: causae causantes (originating causes) as inus conditions in branching space-times
causation indeterminism inus conditions branching space-times
2011/9/6
Branching space-times (BST) theory, as developed elsewhere, permits a sound and rigorously definable notion of ``originating cause'' or causa causans---a type of transition event---of an outcome event...