Causation and the flow of energy

By David Fair. 1979

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1. Tim Miller
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6. Q. Liao
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8. Robert R. Hoffman

Citations in the corpus

• Explanation in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Social Sciences (2017, background): “Transference theories [5, 43, 39], on the other hand, are not defined on dependence, but instead describe physical causation as the transference of energy between objects.”
• Counterfactual Theories of Causation (2001, background): “" David Lewis defended the simple account in his seminal (1973b) article, " Causation " (reprinted in his 1986a).”
• Wesley Salmon's Process Theory of Causality and the Conserved Quantity Theory (1992, background): “A second option is that taken by Fair (1979): to analyze causal process in terms of energy transference.”