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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (3): 422–426.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Mark Povich; Carl F. Craver Lange Marc , Because without Cause: Non-Causal Explanations in Science and Mathematics . New York: Oxford University Press , 2016 . 489 pp. . © 2018 by Cornell University 2018 The consensus in the philosophy of science, at least since the 1980s, has...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (2): 294–296.
Published: 01 April 2002
...Michael Ferejohn R. J. Hankinson, Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998 Pp. ix, 499. Cornell University 2002 BOOK REVIEWS
occurrences make a causal difference. This more restrictive version of MOVE
would...
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Published: 01 July 2018
Figure 1 Two DAGs with and without an intervention on the cause C . The arrows leading into C (dotted) are disrupted by the intervention, the intervention itself is represented by a dashed arrow.
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (4): 548–550.
Published: 01 October 2005
...Jesus H. Aguilar Berent Enç, How We Act: Causes, Reasons, and Intentions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. vi, 252. Cornell University 2005 BOOK REVIEWS
The Philosophical Review, Vol. 114, No. 4 (October 2005)
Berent Enç, How We Act...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (2): 291–294.
Published: 01 April 2002
...Georg Theiner; Timothy O'Connor Paul M. Pietroski, Causing Actions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp.viii, 274. Cornell University 2002 BOOK REVIEWS
Hookway’s book is not an easy read. It is detailed, technically oriented, and
closely argued...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (3): 459–490.
Published: 01 July 2023
... tests whether a maxim is the cause or determining ground of an action at all. According to Kant’s general account of causality, nothing can be a cause of some effect unless there is a lawlike relation between the putative cause and effect. Applied to the case of action, no maxim can be the cause...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (1): 45–96.
Published: 01 January 2021
...J. Dmitri Gallow This article provides a theory of causation in the causal modeling framework. In contrast to most of its predecessors, this theory is model-invariant in the following sense: if the theory says that C caused (didn’t cause) E in a causal model, M , then it will continue to say...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (4): 531–563.
Published: 01 October 2010
... the power of any idea derives from the power of its causes and because many ideas have external causes, there are no grounds for taking the intensity of conscious experience to track a mind's power closely. Rather, as the second group of remarks suggests, power in a human mind tracks the degree to which...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (3): 355–458.
Published: 01 July 2023
... explain two of the core causes of polarization: confirmation bias and the group polarization effect. kmdorst@mit.edu © 2023 by Cornell University 2023 Polarization Ambiguous evidence Confirmation bias Value of evidence Reflection (martingale) principles Bayesian persuasion I...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (3): 371–398.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Figure 1 Two DAGs with and without an intervention on the cause C . The arrows leading into C (dotted) are disrupted by the intervention, the intervention itself is represented by a dashed arrow. ...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (3): 327–358.
Published: 01 July 2005
... of Philosophy 98 : 273 -99. Kim, Jaegwon. 1976 . Events as Property Exemplifications. In Action Theory , ed. Myles Brand and Douglas Walton, 159 -77. Dordrecht: D. Reidel. Kvart, Igal. 1997 . Cause and Some Positive Causal Impact. In Philosophical Perspectives . Vol. 11 , Mind, Causation...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (2): 205–229.
Published: 01 April 2014
... overdetermination, preemption, and joint causation. It would be quite surprising, for example, if fundamental physics renders problematic our belief that it is Suzy's throw alone, not Billy's, that is a cause of the bottle's shattering, given that it arrives first. Here I do not want to rule out the possibility...
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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (3): 317–354.
Published: 01 July 2006
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are useful for eating. The true causes of these phenomena are frequently
beyond our ken, but, accustomed as we are to accepting teleological
explanations in one domain of inquiry (namely, psychology), we read-
ily adopt spurious teleological explanations of these nonpsychological
phenomena...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (2): 303–307.
Published: 01 April 2021
... theses: (A) Only desires or similar conative states provide impulses to act. (B) Beliefs alone cannot initiate action, nor cause affective states that in turn move us to act; they can only influence action by directing already-present desires. (C) Necessarily, all moral evaluations are motives. (D...
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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (1): 1–50.
Published: 01 January 2006
... 27 : 76 -105. Beebee, H. 2004 . “Causing and Nothingness.” In Causation and Counterfactuals , ed. J. Collins, N. Hall, and L. Paul, 291 -308. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Block, N. 1995 . “How Heritability Misleads about Race.” Cognition 56 : 99 -128. Cheng, P. W. 1997 . “From...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (4): 614–619.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Lei Zhong However, this line of reasoning proves too much: it would establish that any property that supervenes on the physical domain is a cause of later physical events! Kroedel himself anticipates this problem. Consider an example that he offers (68). I hold an aluminum ladder against a power...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (3): 419–422.
Published: 01 July 2003
... on the metaphysics of cau-
sation, both because of its thorough and unified treatment of the literature and
because its author faces head-on the most difficult foundational questions
about causality: How, at the most basic level, do causes bring about their
effects? What are the mechanisms operating in the world...
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The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (4): 495–532.
Published: 01 October 2007
... counterfactual theory of token
causation—henceforth the simple theory—would identify token causation
with counterfactual dependence: c is a token cause of e just in case e
counterfactually depends upon c. This simple account is threatened by
counterexamples on both sides. Some authors, but by no means...
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