Bogen, Jim (2006) Causally Productive Activities. [Preprint]
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This paper suggests and discusses an answer to the question what distinguishes causal from non-causal or coincidental co-occurrences based on Elizabeth Anscombe’s idea that causality is a highly abstract concept whose meaning derives from our understanding of specific causally productive activities (e.g., pulling, scraping, burning), and her rejection of the assumption that causality can be informatively understood in terms of general regularities of some sort.
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| Keywords: | causality, mechanistic explanation, anscombe, inhibition, fermentation | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Causation General Issues > Explanation General Issues > History of Science Case Studies |
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| Depositing User: | jim bogen | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jan 2007 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 07 Oct 2010 15:13 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 2182 | ||||||
| Public Domain: | No | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Causation General Issues > Explanation General Issues > History of Science Case Studies |
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| Date: | January 2006 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/2182 |
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