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Abstract
Mechanisms are usually viewed as inherently hierarchical, with lower levels of a mechanism influencing, and decomposing, its higher-level behaviour. In order to adequately draw quantitative predictions from a model of a mechanism, the model needs to capture this hierarchical aspect. The recursive Bayesian network (RBN) formalism was put forward as a means to model mechanistic hierarchies (Casini et al., 2011) by decomposing variables. The proposal was recently criticized by Gebharter (2014) and Gebharter and Kaiser (2014), who instead propose to decompose arrows. In this paper, I defend the RBN account from the criticism and argue that it offers a better representation of mechanistic hierarchies than the rival account.
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| Keywords: | mechanism, causality, constitution, explanation, intervention, recursive Bayesian network, multilevel causal model | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology General Issues > Causation General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Models and Idealization |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Lorenzo Casini | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 05 Nov 2014 21:34 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 25 Nov 2014 17:09 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 11122 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology General Issues > Causation General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Models and Idealization |
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| Date: | 4 November 2014 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/11122 |
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