eprintid: 10188090
rev_number: 10
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datestamp: 2024-03-11 13:59:27
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creators_name: Illari, Phyllis
creators_name: Russo, Federica
title: The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Causal Production: The Prospects of Variation to Trace the Transmission of Information
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B04
divisions: C06
divisions: F58
keywords: information transmission, causal production, causal pluralism, variation, causal mosaic
note: This version is the author-accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
abstract: 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.
date: 2024-01-18
date_type: published
publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192863485.003.0007
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2252733
doi: 10.1093/oso/9780192863485.003.0007
isbn_13: 9780192863485
lyricists_name: Illari, Phyllis Kirstin
lyricists_id: PKILL68
actors_name: Illari, Phyllis Kirstin
actors_id: PKILL68
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
series: Oxford Academic
place_of_pub: Oxford, UK
pagerange: 153-174
book_title: Alternative Approaches to Causation: Beyond Difference-making and Mechanism Alternative Approaches to Causation: Beyond Difference-making and Mechanism
editors_name: Shan, Yafeng
citation:        Illari, Phyllis;    Russo, Federica;      (2024)    The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Causal Production: The Prospects of Variation to Trace the Transmission of Information.                    In: Shan, Yafeng, (ed.) Alternative Approaches to Causation: Beyond Difference-making and Mechanism Alternative Approaches to Causation: Beyond Difference-making and Mechanism. (pp. 153-174).   Oxford University Press (OUP): Oxford, UK.       Green open access   
 
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