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Causes without Mechanisms: Experimental Regularities, Physical Laws, and Neuroscientific Explanation
Causes Mechanisms
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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...
CAUSALITY, MECHANISMS AND MANIPULATION
causality probability manipulability
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2008/4/10
This paper suggests an integration of Wesley Salmon's mechanistic theory of causality with a manipulative account of causation of the kind that has been recently defended by Huw Price and Peter Menzie...
Adaptive speciation: The role of natural selection in mechanisms of geographic and non-geographic speciation
Speciation mechanisms Isolating mechanisms
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2008/4/9
Recent discussion of mechanism has suggested new approaches to several issues in the philosophy of science, including theory structure, causal explanation, and reductionism. Here, I apply what I take ...
A Glimpse of the Secret Connexion:Harmonising Mechanisms with Counterfactuals
causation mechanisms counterfactuals manipulation
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2008/4/9
Among the current philosophical attempts to understand causation two seem to be the most prominent. The first is James Woodward’s counterfactual approach; the second is the mechanistic approach advoca...