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Delay and knowledge mediation in human causal reasoning [PDF]
, 2002 Contemporary theories of causal induction have focussed largely on the question of how evidence in the form of covariations between causes and effects is used to compute measures of causal strength.
Buehner, Marc
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Fodor's Causal Argument and Unwarranted Supervenience Assumption; Examining Egan's Argument [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical InvestigationsIn this essay, I examine Fodor's argument in favor of psychological individualism and Egan's response. According to Fodor's causal argument, every scientific theory individualizes states or identities according to their causal powers.
Abbas Mahdavi
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Collective Intentionality and Causal Powers
Journal of Social Ontology, 2015 Bridging two traditions of social ontology, this paper examines the possibility that the concept of collective intentionality can help to explain the mechanisms underpinning the causal powers of some social entities.
Dave Elder-Vass
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SSM: Population Health, 2022 In a study attempting to estimate a causal effect of a causal variable, an assessment of the predictive power of the causal variable can shed light on the heterogeneity around its average effect.
Sun Yeop Lee +3 more
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Non-causal explanation in science [PDF]
, 2013 Non-causal and causal explanation in science are unified under an extension of James Woodward's manipulationist account of causal explanation. Scientific explanation is about capturing and representing the modal structure of the world.
Pexton, Mark
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Identity as a causal power [PDF]
The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 2018 We propose a critical realist-informed conception of entrepreneurial identity – the personal power to create a new venture. Although most people have the power to become an entrepreneur, not everyone can, or is motivated to, realize that potential.
Kasperova, Eva +2 more
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How multiple causes combine: independence constraints on causal inference
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 According to the causal power view, two core constraints – that causes occur independently (i.e., no confounding) and influence their effects independently – serve as boundary conditions for causal induction.
Mimi eLiljeholm
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Amplitude-modulated, Cosine PE and WP Pulses: Theory and Applicability [PDF]
Radioengineering, 2021 The amplitude-modulated, cosine power-exponential (PE) and windowed-power (WP) pulses are discussed, by insisting on their time-domain normalization. Illustrative examples of signatures and their correspondent frequency-domain behavior are given.
I. E. Lager, M. Stumpf
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Individual differences in causal learning and decision making [PDF]
, 2005 This is an accepted author manuscript of an article subsequently published by Elsevier. The final published version can be found here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2005.04.003In judgment and decision making tasks, people tend to neglect the overall
Osman, M, Shanks, David R
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PLoS ONE, 2023 Metabolic power (net energy consumed while walking per unit time) is, on average, two-to-three times greater in children with cerebral palsy (CP) than their typically developing peers, contributing to greater physical fatigue, lower levels of physical ...
Pavreet K Gill +3 more
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