Causal pluralism in the life sciences : a journey along the frontiers of conceptual plurality / Kolja Ehrenstein.
Ehrenstein, Kolja.
2022
QH331
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Title Causal pluralism in the life sciences : a journey along the frontiers of conceptual plurality / Kolja Ehrenstein.
Author Ehrenstein, Kolja.
ISBN 9783030879426 (electronic bk.)
3030879429 (electronic bk.)
3030879410
9783030879419
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87942-6
Imprint Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-87942-6 doi
Call Number QH331
Dewey Decimal Classification 570.1
Summary This book takes a new approach to the debate on causal pluralism in the philosophy of biology by asking how useful pluralism is instead of debating its truth. The core thesis in this work is that many problems do not hinge on the question of whether or not we subscribe to causal pluralism. As one step in this central argument, the author develops an account that reasonably distinguishes pluralism from monism; in another step he studies cases that allegedly motivate causal pluralism in biology. Examining these cases shows how pluralism is often irrelevant and why pursuing pluralism is sometimes dangerous, since it may generate pseudo solutions to persistent philosophical problems. This book offers a systematic approach to this subject matter and argues that we might have overestimated the significance of the monism-pluralism distinction and at the same time failed to see the risks of pursuing causal pluralism.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 11, 2022).
Series History, philosophy and theory of the life sciences ; v. 25. 2211-1956
Available in Other Form Print version: 9783030879419
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Chapter 1 Conceptual Pluralism
Chapter 2 Theories of Causation
Chapter 3 Recognising Pluralism and Arity Pluralism
Chapter 4 The Concepts of Ultimate and Proximate Cause
Chapter 5 Permissive and Instructive Causes
Chapter 6 Distinctions Between Production and Dependence
Chapter 7 Omissions and Conceptual Distinctions of Causal Concepts
Chapter 8 Epilogue
Index.

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