Causal models and causal relativism.
A promising development in the philosophy of causation analyzes actual causation using structural equation models, i.e., “causal models”. This paper carefully considers what it means for an interpreted model to be accurate of its target situation. These considerations show, first, that our existing...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 205; no. 3; pp. 1 - 27 |
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Mar2025
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