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Causation and evidence
This work addresses questions about causation and evidence: How can we learn what causes what? Can we get evidence for objects that don't cause anything? And what is the evidential relationship between events in a causal loop? Structural equations accounts of causation seem to provide a good basis …
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Counterfactuals Without Causation, Probabilistic Counterfactuals and the Counterfactual Analysis of Causation
… if we must analyze counterfactuals in terms of causation, this rules out giving a reductive account of causation in terms of counterfactuals, and is, as such, a serious blow to the Humean hope of reducing causation to counterfactual dependence. This dissertation is composed of three …
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Plato's Principles of Causation
… to the following three negative principles of causation: (1) the same cause cannot produce opposite effects; (2) opposite causes cannot produce the same effect; (3) an opposite cannot cause an opposite. Plato also appears to hold a further, positive causal principle, the principle that (4) like …
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LEARNING, FORECASTING AND CAUSATION AS COMPRESSION.
Two main guidelines can be adopted to investigate a system and forecast its future behavior. The first kind of strategy emphasizes the role of general principles, which guide us in building models that embody the background knowledge available. The second class of techniques refers to phenomena …
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Epidemic influenza: its causation and prevention
PART ONE - MAINLY HISTORICAL: Influenza is a disease of the respiratory tract. It is characterised by an abrupt onset, pyrexia, ill defined muscular pains, and a serous or catarrhal discharge from the epithelium of the nose, pharynx, and bronchial tree. Economically it is important, as twenty per …
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A reverse counterfactual analysis of causation
Lewis’s counterfactual analysis of causation starts with the claim that c causes e if ~ C > ~ E, where c and e are events, C and E are the propositions that c and e respectively occur, ~ is negation and > is the counterfactual conditional. The purpose of my project is to provide a counterfactual …
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Causation in metaphysics and moral theory
… to break. But according to the majority view, causation exclusively relates events. This chapter defends the contrary view that the causal relata are as miscellaneous as ordinary talk suggests. A question remains: is there an ontological kind K such that causal relations on entities of that …
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Accident causation model for building construction sites
… the aim of this study was to develop an accident causation model (ACM) at building construction projects sites, focusing on determining the significant factors that cause site accidents. These factors consisted of 93 items and they were divided into seven constructs. The study was undertaken in …
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Leibniz on intra-substantial causation and change
… <em>intra</em>-substantial or <em>immanent</em> causation is possible— the causation that takes place <em>within</em> an individual, when an individual brings about a change in itself. In this dissertation, I address issues arising from Leibniz’s arguments against the rival view that posits a …
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Causation and Explanation in Molecular Developmental Biology
… which revolve around two central themes: causation and explanation. Chapter Two identifies a particular type of causal relation which is widespread across the sciences, but cannot be straightforwardly accommodated by extant accounts of causation and causal explanation. Chapter Three …
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Causation in the Law of State Responsibility
Causation has, at the very minimum, two functions in legal responsibility regimes. First, there is no responsibility without a conduct with causal consequences, making causation a condition of responsibility. Second, causation determines and delimits the extent of liability. The first claim of this …
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Potency & Process: A Naturalistic Defense of Mental Causation
… precludes the possibility of robust mental causation. "Exclusion arguments" of the sort offered by Jaegwon Kim present the physicalist with an apparent dilemma: either all putatively "mental" causation reduces to mere "bottom-up" causation, or else it is epiphenomenal. However, the …
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The Tale of Mental Causation: Fact or Fiction?
Mental causation is with us all the time. Being a table is different from being a human---although we are composed of physical particles, we have understanding, reason, or perception, which are able to make a difference in the physical world. In this dissertation, I have detail discussions of …
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Grounding, Causation and the Unity of Ontological Structure
… such unity via the theoretical unification of causation and grounding. And this unification supports another: the unification of reality’s causal structure and reality’s hierarchical structure.</p> <p>To propose a unification of causation and grounding, I employ a common conception of grounding …
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Theocratic Governance and Military Force Structure: Correlation Vs. Causation
This study scrutinizes the relationship between regime type and military force structure. In particular, the paper will be examining the correlation between modern day theocracies and their parallel military systems. These systems are constructed of the regular armed forces and an autonomous …
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Causation in the Law of the World Trade Organization
… and implicitly requires that a determination of causation be made at a number of points. In several of the WTO covered agreements, an important part of making a determination about causation involves separating those factors that are causative from those that are immaterial to the outcome in …
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