The Aristotle-Kant tradition requires that autonomous activity must originate within the self and points toward a new type of causation (different from natural efficient causation) associated with teleology. Notoriously, it has so far proven impossible to uncover a workable model of causation satisfying these requirements without an increasingly unsatisfying appeal to extra-physical elements ta...

Causation is a concept that plays an essential role in reasoning with commonsense. It is a property inherent to the dynamics of changing environments. Therefore, it should follow that causation should also play an essential role in the theories of action and change. However, in this article we postulate that causation is a form of abstraction. As a consequence of this view, one should not attem...

Abstract A theoretical framework is provided to explore teleonomy as a problem of self-causation, distinct from upward, downward and reticulate causation. Causality theories in biology are often formulated within hierarchy theories, where causation conceptualized running up or down the rungs ladder-like or, more recently, moving between multiple hierarchies. Research on genealogy cosmologies de...

Abstract Setting off from a familiar distinction in the philosophy of properties, this paper introduces tripartite between sparse causation, abundant causation and mere (instances latter forming sub-class causation). It is argued that contrast allows us to resolve notorious philosophical issues having do with negative involving institutional properties physical macro-causation way unified, intu...

How the mind of a human being can determine the bodily spirits [i.e., the fluids in the nerves, muscles, etc.] in producing voluntary actions, being only a thinking substance. For it appears that all determination of movement is produced by the pushing of the thing being moved, by the manner in which it is pushed by that which moves it, or else by the qualification and figure of the surface of ...

Current psychological accounts of causal representation and reasoning do not capture phenomena related to causation by omission (e.g., “The absence of breathing causes death”), with one exception (Wolff, Barbey, & Hausknecht, 2010). We describe a novel theory of omissive causation that posits that people build discrete mental simulations – mental models – of causal relations (Goldvarg & Johnson...

analyzing the nonlinear vibration of beams is one of the important issues in structural engineering. according to this, an impressive analytical method which is called modified iteration perturbation method (mipm) is used to obtain the behavior and frequency of a cantilever beam with geometric nonlinear. this new method is combined by the mickens and iteration methods. moreover, this method don...