Are causal facts really explanatorily emergent? Ladyman and Ross on higher-level causal facts and renormalization group explanation.

In their Every Thing Must Go, Ladyman and Ross defend a novel version of Neo-Russellian metaphysics of causation, which falls into three claims: (1) there are no fundamental physical causal facts, (2) there are higher-level causal facts of the special sciences, and (3) higher-level causal facts are...

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Publicado en:	Synthese Vol. 194; no. 7; pp. 2291 - 2306
Autor principal:	Reutlinger, Alexander
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Springer Nature Jul2017
Materias:	Causation (Philosophy) Renormalization (Physics) Renormalization group Philosophy of science Ontology
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