Explanatory autonomy: the role of proportionality, stability, and conditional irrelevance.
This paper responds to recent criticisms of the idea that true causal claims, satisfying a minimal "interventionist" criterion for causation, can differ in the extent to which they satisfy other conditions—called stability and proportionality—that are relevant to their use in explanatory theorizing....
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 198; no. 1; pp. 237 - 266 |
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