Getting Causes from Powers
By S. Mumford, R. Anjum. 2011
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Preface 1. Passing Powers Around 2. Modelling Causes as Vectors 3. Against Necessity 4. Reductionism, Holism, and Emergence 5. Simultaneity 6. Explanation, Absences, and Counterfactuals 7. The Logic of Causation 8. Primitive Modality 9. Perceiving Causes 10. A Biologically Disposed Theory of Causation Conclusion Bibliography Index
Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, History and Philosophy of Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Discovering Causal Signals in Images (2016, background): “The dispositional semantics of causation [20] provide a way to address this difficulty.”
- Explaining Explanation, Part 1: Theoretical Foundations (2017, background): “1541-1672/17/$33.00 © 7 One clear conclusion is that nearly any thing or event can count as a cause and nearly any thing or event can be thought of as the effect or the result of some other event.”
- Parsimony and Causality (2015, background): “well-known examples of the second type are Dowe (2000) or Mumford and Anjum (2011).(4) In a nutshell, difference-making theories stipulate—as their name suggests—that causes are characterized by their property of making some sort of difference to their effects, where the relevant sort of difference-”