Causally powerful processes
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Abstract Processes produce changes: rivers erode their banks and thunderstorms cause floods. If I am right that organisms are a kind of process, then the causally efficacious behaviours also examples processes producing change. In this paper shall try to articulate view how we should think causation within broadly processual ontology living world. Specifically, argue causation, at least in central class cases, is interaction processes, such exercise capacity inherent process and, negatively, not be understood as instantiation universal laws. The approach describe has substantial similarities with causality articulated by Wesley Salmon Phil Dowe for physical making it plausible basic can applied equally non-living It an builds crucial points on criticisms determinism famously Elizabeth Anscombe.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Synthese
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0039-7857', '1573-0964']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03263-9