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Mechanisms, Causes and the Layered Model of the World
Causation Properties Levels of Organization
2008/4/15
Most philosophical accounts of causation take causal relations to obtain between individuals and events in virtue of nomological relations between properties of these individuals and events. Such view...
Evolutionary processes such as natural selection and random drift are
commonly regarded as causes of population-level change. We respond to a
recent challenge that drift and selection are best und...
Is the common cause principle merely one of a set of useful heuristics for discovering causal relations, or is it rather a piece of heavy duty metaphysics, capable of grounding the direction of causat...
Causes without Mechanisms: Experimental Regularities, Physical Laws, and Neuroscientific Explanation
Causes Mechanisms
2008/4/10
This paper examines the role of experimental generalizations and physical laws in neuroscientific explanations, using Hodgkin’s and Huxley’s electrophysiological model from 1952 as a test case. I show...
Biologists studying complex causal systems typically identify some factors as causes and treat other factors as background conditions. For example, when geneticists explain biological phenomena, they ...