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An argument for power inheritance [PDF]
, 2016 Non-reductive physicalism is commonly understood as the view that mental properties are realized by physical properties. Here, I argue that the realization relation in question is a power inheritance relation: if a property P realizes a property Q, then ...
Baysan, Umut
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Causal Modeling and the Efficacy of Action [PDF]
, 2022 This paper brings together Thompson's naive action explanation with interventionist modeling of causal structure to show how they work together to produce causal models that go beyond current modeling capabilities, when applied to specifically selected ...
Andersen, Holly
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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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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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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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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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Explaining the Ontological Emergence of Consciousness [PDF]
, 2018 Ontological emergentists about consciousness maintain that phenomenal properties are ontologically fundamental properties that are nonetheless non-basic: they emerge from reality only once the ultimate material constituents of reality (the ...
Woodward, Philip
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Causal Unit of Rotors in a Cardiac System [PDF]
, 2017 The heart exhibits complex systems behaviors during atrial fibrillation (AF), where the macroscopic collective behavior of the heart causes the microscopic behavior. However, the relationship between the downward causation and scale is nonlinear.
Ashikaga, Hiroshi +3 more
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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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