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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 ...
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 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...
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...
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...
The Great Connexion: Hume's Metaphysical Logic Of Belief-Constructed Causation
Hume Metaphysical Logic
2009/12/3
It is a commonplace that Hume the philosopher1 is essentially Hume the sceptic.
Hume deploys his skeptical arguments in both epistemology and ethics.
In the epistemological context, Hume argues that...
In studying causation, many examples are presented assuming that determinism holds in the world of the example such as the notoriously difficult to resolve preemptive and preventative situations. We s...