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A Probabilistic Analysis of Causation [PDF]
, 2009 The starting point in the development of probabilistic analyses of token causation has usually been the naive intuition that, in some relevant sense, a cause raises the probability of its effect.
Glynn, Luke, Luke Glynn, Glynn, L
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Causation and Mental Causation: Standpoints and Intersections
Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2015 Causation has been widely investigated in the recent philosophy of science and theories have been proliferating over the last decades. At the same time, the problem of mental causation has played a pivotal role in recent debates in the philosophy of mind.
Raffaella Campaner, Carlo Gabbani
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The Tendency Theory of Causation [PDF]
, 2003 I propose a non-Humean theory of causation with “tendencies” as causal connections. Not, however, as “necessary connexions”: causes are not sufficient, they do not necessitate their effects. The theory is designed to be, not an analysis of the concept of
Wachter, Daniel von
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HIERARCHICAL REPRESENTATION OF CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS TO DETAIL EXPLANATIONS IN INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
Сучасні інформаційні системи, 2021 The subject of research in the article is the processes of constructing explanations in intelligent systems based on the use of causal dependencies. The aim is to develop a hierarchical representation of causal relationships between the actions of an ...
Serhii Chalyi, Volodymyr Leshchynskyi
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What Might a Theory of Causation Do for Sport?
Philosophies, 2019 The purpose of this research is to articulate how a theory of causation might be serviceable to a theory of sport. This article makes conceptual links between Bernard Suits’ theory of game-playing, causation, and theories of causation. It justifies
Evan Thomas Knott
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Inflammatory bowel disease and cardiovascular disease: A two-sample Mendelian randomization analysis
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022 BackgroundAlthough epidemiological studies have shown a positive relationship between inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) outcomes, a solid causal relationship has not been established.
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Causation in Psychoanalysis [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 It has been argued that psychoanalytic and biological theories cannot be integrated because they rely on different epistemological grounds, namely on hermeneutic versus causal explanations, that are inconsistent with each other. Such inconsistency would seriously question the general possibility of neuropsychoanalytic research.
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Causal Foundationalism, Physical Causation, and Difference-Making [PDF]
, 2013 An influential tradition in the philosophy of causation has it that all token causal facts are, or are reducible to, facts about difference-making. Challenges to this tradition have typically focused on pre-emption cases, in which a cause apparently ...
Glynn, Luke, Glynn, L
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Introduction to Special Issue on 'Actual Causation' [PDF]
, 2013 An actual cause of some token effect is itself a (distinct) token event (or fact, or state of affairs, …) that helped to bring about that effect. The notion of an actual cause is different from that of a potential cause – for example a pre-empted backup –
Baumgartner, Michael, Glynn, Luke
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Frailty and hearing loss: From association to causation
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2022 BackgroundObservational studies suggest that frailty is associated with hearing loss (HL) but with inconsistent results. This study aims to examine such association and to assess its causality.Materials and methodsThe cross-sectional data from the ...
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