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Causes as Deviations from the Normal: Recent Advances in the Philosophy of Causation

Autor: Georgie Statham

Publikováno v: Perspectives on Causation ISBN: 9783030343071

There have recently been a number of important advances in the philosophy of causation, which impact our understanding of both the nature of causation and of causal reasoning. Two stand out in particular: First, a large body of work on the way that n

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34308-8_14

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Mechanisms, the interventionist theory, and the ability to use causal relationships

Autor: Georgie Statham

Publikováno v: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A. 72:22-31

In the area of social science, in particular, although we have developed methods for reliably discovering the existence of causal relationships, we are not very good at using these to design effective social policy. Cartwright argues that in order to

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2018.04.002

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Normative commitments, causal structure, and policy disagreement

Autor: Georgie Statham

Publikováno v: Synthese. 197:1983-2003

Recently, there has been a large amount of support for the idea that causal claims can be sensitive to normative considerations. Previous work has focused on the concept of actual causation, defending the claim that whether or not some token event c

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Contrastive Causal Claims: A Case Study

Autor: Georgie Statham

Publikováno v: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 68:663-688

Contrastive and deviant/default accounts of causation are becoming increasingly common. However, discussions of these accounts have neglected important questions, including how the context ...

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https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axv059

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Woodward and variable relativity

Autor: Georgie Statham

Publikováno v: Philosophical Studies. 175:885-902

The aim of this paper is to determine whether and to what extent Woodward’s interventionist theory of causation is variable relative. In an influential review, Strevens has accused Woodward’s account of a damaging form of variable relativity, acc

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-017-0897-2

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The manipulation of chemical reactions: probing the limits of interventionism

Autor: Georgie Statham

Publikováno v: Synthese. 194:4815-4838

This is the final version of the article. It first appeared from Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-016-1170-5
I apply James Woodward’s interventionist theory of causation to organic chemistry, modelling three different ways that ch

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