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Causal Closure for MSC Languages [PDF]
Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, 2005 Message sequence charts (MSCs) are commonly used to specify interactions between agents in communicating systems. Their visual nature makes them attractive for describing scenarios, but also leads to ambiguities that can result in incomplete or inconsistent descriptions.
B. Adsul +3 more
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Overdetermination and Causal Closure: A Defense of the Causal Argument for Physicalism
ProtoSociology, 2022 Among the arguments that have been proposed for physicalism, the “causal argument” is widely taken to be the most compelling. Justin Tiehen (2015) has raised an interesting objection to this argument that takes the form of a dilemma.
A. Ney
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Theoria, BeogradThe mind-body problem has posed the questions: can we defend mental causation, or is there causal relevance of mental qua mental over and above physical in human behaviour? This would mean that conscious experience is not a physical phenomenon, though
Janko Nešić
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‘Not finding causal effect’ is not ‘finding no causal effect’ of school closure on COVID-19 [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] [PDF]
F1000Research, 2021 In a paper recently published in Nature Medicine, Fukumoto et al. tried to assess the government-led school closure policy during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan.
Akira Endo
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Genealogies of organizational closure: from logical paradox to mind in life [PDF]
Frontiers in Artificial IntelligenceOrganizational closure occupies a central position in contemporary theories of autonomy, anticipation, agency, sense making, and the continuity between life and mind.
Sergio Rubin +4 more
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Active Doings and the Principle of the Causal Closure of the Physical World
Organon F, 2019 Some philosophers hold that it would be impossible for us to do something actively if the physical world were causally closed, i.e., if in the physical world all events were caused by other physical events if they are caused at all.
Ansgar Beckermann
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Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2016 AbstractWhat does it mean to say that mind‐body dualism is causally problematic in a way that other mind‐body theories, such as the psychophysical type identity theory, are not? After considering and rejecting various proposals, I advance my own, which focuses on what grounds the causal closure of the physical realm.
Justin T. Tiehen
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Hylomorphism and the Causal Closure of the Physical
TopoiHoward Robinson has criticized the contemporary revival of hylomorphism for, on the one hand, accepting the causal closure of the physical, while, on the other, ascribing a real and irreducible causal role to forms or structures.
João Pinheiro da Silva
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Explaining causal closure [PDF]
, 2015 The physical realm is causally closed, according to physicalists like me. But why is it causally closed, what metaphysically explains causal closure? I argue that reductive physicalists are committed to one explanation of causal closure to the exclusion ...
Justin T. Tiehen
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Association between venous access-site closure device use and postoperative nausea and vomiting after atrial fibrillation ablation under propofol sedation: a single-centre retrospective observational study in Okayama, Japan [PDF]
BMJ OpenObjectives To examine whether the use of a venous access-site closure device is associated with the occurrence of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) after atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation under propofol sedation.Design Observational study.Setting ...
Shunichi Higashiya +8 more
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