TY  - CHAP
KW  - information transmission
KW  -  causal production
KW  -  causal pluralism
KW  -  variation
KW  -  causal mosaic
N1  - This version is the author-accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
T2  - Alternative Approaches to Causation: Beyond Difference-making and Mechanism Alternative Approaches to Causation: Beyond Difference-making and Mechanism
EP  - 174
TI  - The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Causal Production: The Prospects of Variation to Trace the Transmission of Information
CY  - Oxford, UK
AV  - public
A1  - Illari, Phyllis
A1  - Russo, Federica
PB  - Oxford University Press (OUP)
ED  - Shan, Yafeng
SP  - 153
N2  - In the sciences and in everyday talk, language is replete with cases in which we, epistemic agents, are interested in how causes produce effects, in a variety of contexts and situations. In this chapter, the authors develop the account of causal production as information transmission which they initially presented in previous work. Specifically, in this contribution they explain the role of causal production within the ?mosaic? of causal theory, and how a metaphysics for causal production as information transmission is in need of a set of epistemological strategies to trace whether information is transmitted or not; such epistemological strategies can be in terms of ?variation? as well as ?information transmission?. The authors explain the ?ontoepistemological? combination of information transmission and of variation with the aid of four episodes of causal production.
T3  - Oxford Academic
ID  - discovery10188090
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192863485.003.0007
Y1  - 2024/01/18/
ER  -