Activities are Manifestations of Causal Powers

Gualtiero Piccinini

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-52768-0_12

Activities are Manifestations of Causal Powers

Gualtiero Piccinini

University of Missouri-St. Louis

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Abstract

I reduce activities to properties, where properties include causal powers. Activities are manifestations of causal powers. Activities occur when an entity’s causal powers encounter partners for their manifestation. Given this reduction of activities to (manifestations of) properties, entities and properties (and their organization) are all we need for an ontology of mechanisms.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Eppur Si Muove: Doing History and Philosophy of Science with Peter Machamer
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52768-0_12
State	Published - 2017

Keywords

Causal Power
Inclusive Fitness
Mechanistic Explanation
Scientific Practice
Special Science

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Philosophy

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