Most philosophical accounts of causation take causal relations to obtain between individuals and events in...

While much of the recent literature on mechanisms has emphasized the superiority of mechanisms and...

Recent papers by a number of philosophers have been concerned with the question of whether...

Arguments about the relationship between science and religion often proceed by identifying a set of...

A number of developmental psychologists have argued for a theory they call the theory theory...

Philosophers of science increasingly believe that much of science is concerned with understanding the mechanisms...

Eliot Sober and Richard Lewontin claim that genic selection misrepresents the causes of evolution. Their...

Philosophers of science typically associate the causal-mechanical view of scientific explanation with the work of...

A central goal of elementary and secondary science education is to go beyond the facts...

In this paper I criticize Cartwright's analysis of capacities and offer an alternative analysis. I...

In this paper I present both a critical appraisal of Humphreys' probabilistic theory of causality...

In this paper I offer an analysis of causation based upon a theory of mechanisms...

In this paper I discuss Searle's claim that the computational properties of a system could...

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Elements of Deductive Inference is a introductory textbook in symbolic logic. Joe and I wrote...

My aim in this paper is to make a case for the singularist view from...

Mechanism is undoubtedly a causal concept, in the sense that ordinary definitions and philosophical analyses...

This book chapter contains an overview of recent work on mechanisms -- especially the work...

This encyclopedia article provides an overview of developments in the theory of explanation from Hempel...