Browsing Department of Philosophy by Journals "British Journal for the Philosophy of Science"

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    • Boolean Difference-Making: A Modern Regularity Theory of Causation 

      Baumgartner, Michael Clemens; Falk, Christoph (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      A regularity theory of causation analyses type-level causation in terms of Boolean difference-making. The essential ingredient that helps this theoretical framework overcome the problems of Hume’s and Mill’s classical ...

    • The PC Algorithm and the Inference to Constitution 

      Casini, Lorenzo; Baumgartner, Michael Clemens (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Gebharter has proposed using one of the best known Bayesian network causal discovery algorithms, PC, to identify the constitutive dependencies underwriting mechanistic explanations. His proposal assumes that mechanistic ...