Titlebook: Causal Pluralism in the Life Sciences; A Journey Along the Kolja Ehrenstein Book 2022 Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022 Causal Explanati

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Recognising Pluralism and Arity Pluralism,uish (plain) causal pluralism from arity pluralism. Plain causal pluralism is the claim that one cannot successfully analyse a master concept that subsumes more specific causal concepts. Monism is the claim that this is possible. Arity pluralism is a form of conceptual plurality that postulates causal concepts of different arity.

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Conceptual Pluralism, opposed to an epistemic or metaphysical approach. This chapter gives a brief preliminary introduction to my account of conceptual causal pluralism and I explain why I reject the idea of proving or disproving the vague general position of causal pluralism.

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Recognising Pluralism and Arity Pluralism,-order logic and argue that it is nevertheless possible to employ first-order logic in an attempt at structuring claims of causal pluralism. I distinguish (plain) causal pluralism from arity pluralism. Plain causal pluralism is the claim that one cannot successfully analyse a master concept that sub

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Permissive and Instructive Causes,iological permissive-instructive scale translates into causal specificity as influence. My conclusion is that Woodward is correct in conjecturing this. This means that the permissive-instructive scale cannot be an instance of pluralism. However, I also discuss why Woodward didn’t succeed in illustra

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Epilogue,nt suggestion to speak of ‘reciprocal causation’ and I suggest that researchers should be more open about the fact that they do (and in my opinion also need to) compare and weigh causal contributions against each other. The chapter closes with a warning not to overestimate the scope for reasonable a

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