Causally powerful processes
dc.contributor.author | Dupre, J | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-06-09T14:52:16Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-06-29 | |
dc.description.abstract | Processes produce changes: rivers erode their banks and thunderstorms cause floods. If I am right that organism are a kind of process, then the causally efficacious behaviours of organisms are also examples of processes producing change. In this paper I shall try to articulate a view of how we should think of causation within a broadly processual ontology of the living world. Specifically, I shall argue that causation, at least in a central class of cases, is the interaction of processes, that such causation is the exercise of a capacity inherent in that process and, negatively, that causation should not be understood as the instantiation of universal laws. The approach I describe has substantial similarities with the process causality articulated by Wesley Salmon and Phil Dowe for physical causation, making it plausible that the basic approach can be applied equally to the non-living world. It is an approach that builds at crucial points on the criticisms of determinism and universal causality famously articulated by Elizabeth Anscombe. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 29 June 2021 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s11229-021-03263-9 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/125993 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Springer | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2021. Open access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | |
dc.subject | Causation | |
dc.subject | Causal process | |
dc.subject | Capacity | |
dc.subject | Process ontology | |
dc.subject | Process biology | |
dc.subject | Living systems | |
dc.subject | Organism | |
dc.title | Causally powerful processes | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2021-06-09T14:52:16Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0039-7857 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Springer via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1573-0964 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Synthese | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2021-06-11 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2021-06-11 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2021-06-09T14:26:44Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-06-30T08:50:30Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
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