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This text argues that there is causation at every scale of measurement - countering the philosophical position that causation, or 'activity, ' occurs only at the minutest scales of measurement (the scale of microphysics). Thalos's scale-free model, as she shows, is much more hospitabl...

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Main Author: Thalos, Mariam, 1962- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Causation.
Science > Philosophy.
Physics > Philosophy.
Physique > Philosophie.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Causation
Physics > Philosophy
Science > Philosophy
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Towards a theory of science
  • Scale freedom recontextualized
  • Against the philosophy of a one-scale universe
  • Resheathing
  • Philosophical foundations of science and metaphysics
  • Multiple conceptions of fundamentality
  • Why causation is not the cement of the universe
  • Moves and movers: notes on the progress of science
  • Making sense of order: the true cement of the universe
  • Deployments
  • Logic of leading and following: dependence and independence among quantities
  • Microcosm of unity (of science) that is physics
  • Toward a more truth-illuminating metaphysics.