Causality as a theoretical concept: explanatory warrant and empirical content of the theory of causal nets.

We start this paper by arguing that causality should, in analogy with force in Newtonian physics, be understood as a theoretical concept that is not explicated by a single definition, but by the axioms of a theory. Such an understanding of causality implicitly underlies the well-known theory of caus...

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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 193; no. 4; pp. 1073 - 1104
Autores principales: Schurz, Gerhard, Gebharter, Alexander
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Apr2016
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