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Explanation, unification, and what chemistry gets from causation
unification causation chemistry
2008/4/22
I consider a way the concept of causation could be excised from chemical practice, suggested by Kitcher's view that causes are just a subset of unifying patterns which play a particular psychological ...
The dynamics model, which is based on Talmy’s (1988) theory of force dynamics, characterizes
causation as a pattern of forces and a position vector. In contrast to counterfactual and
probabilistic m...
The New Riddle of Causation
causation counterfactuals backtracking selection absence event
2008/4/21
We commonly distinguish causes from mere conditions, for example by saying that the strike caused the match to light but by failing to mention the presence of oxygen. Philosophers from Mill to Lewis h...
In this paper I articulate RVC with an eye to two things: first, its conceptual development; second, its basic commitments and implications for what causation is. I have chosen to present RVC in a way...
Three ways of worrying about 'causation'
Causation information anticipation metaphysics of causation
2008/4/21
Our point of departure is Russell’s (1913) argument for the ‘complete extrusion’ of the word ‘cause’ from the philosophical vocabulary. We argue that at least three different types of philosophical pr...
Interventionist Theories of Causation in Psychological Perspective
Causation Interventionist Theories
2008/4/15
Interventionist Theories of Causation in Psychological Perspective
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...
I deny that the world is fundamentally causal, deriving the skepticism on non-Humean grounds from our enduring failures to find a contingent, universal principle of causality that holds true of our sc...
This paper examines some counterexamples to Judea Pearl's theory of token-causation within his structural equations framework. It argues that it is possible to modify the theory in natural ways to ove...
A theory of causation: causae causantes (originating causes) as inus conditions in branching space-times
causation indeterminism inus conditions
2008/4/9
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 ev...
A Structural Equations Account of Negative Causation
causation structural equations negative causation
2008/4/9
This paper criticizes a recent account of token causation that states that negative causation involving absences of events is of a fundamentally different kind from positive causation involving events...