Eberhardt, Frederick and Fang, Wei and Zhang, Jiji (2024) Proportionality and the Effect-of-Cause Question. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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One of the most influential accounts of high-level causation appeals to a notion of proportionality, which aims to identify the cause (variable) at an appropriate level given an effect (variable) of interest. Here we ask the dual question: Given a cause (variable) of interest, what is an appropriate level to model the effect? We argue that this question is not yet settled by the proportionality account and develop a natural counterpart to the proportionality account for this question. We also discuss several challenges for the effect-of-cause question that do not have an analog in the cause-of-effect question.

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Eberhardt, Frederick fde@caltech.edu Fang, Wei wesleyfang@outlook.com 0000000198560599 Zhang, Jiji jijizhang@cuhk.edu.hk
Keywords:	causality, abstraction, proportionality, mental causation, variable definition
Subjects:	General Issues > Causation General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Reductionism/Holism
Depositing User:	Frederick Eberhardt
Date Deposited:	01 Jun 2024 03:04
Last Modified:	01 Jun 2024 03:04
Item ID:	23507
Subjects:	General Issues > Causation General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Reductionism/Holism
Date:	2024
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/23507

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