How agency can solve interventionism's problem of circularity.

Woodward's interventionist theory of causation is beset by a problem of circularity: the analysis of causes is in terms of interventions, and the analysis of interventions is in terms of causes. This is not in itself an argument against the correctness of the analysis. But by requiring us to have ca...

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Publicado en:	Synthese Vol. 191; no. 8; pp. 1775 - 1792
Autores principales:	Gijsbers, Victor, Bruin, Leon
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Springer Nature May2014
Materias:	Causation (Philosophy) Operant behavior Agency theory Attribution (Social psychology) Developmental psychology Theory of knowledge in children
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