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Teleological language in the life sciences
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ISBN: 0847686949 Year: 1997 Publisher: Lanham, Md. New York Boulder Rowman & Littlefield

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Final causality in nature and human affairs
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ISBN: 0813208912 9780813208916 Year: 1997 Volume: 30 Publisher: Washington (D.C.): Catholic university of America press

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Final Causality in Nature and Human Affairs
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ISBN: 0813230578 9780813230573 0813208912 9780813230566 081323056X Year: 1997 Publisher: Washington, D.C. Catholic University of America Press

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Hume and the problem of causation
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ISBN: 0195202368 Year: 1981 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Oxford university press

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The rationality of theism
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ISBN: 0415263328 041526331X 1134574886 1280036508 0203480678 9780203480670 9780415263313 9780415263320 9781134574834 9781134574872 9781134574889 1134574878 Year: 2003 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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This is a controversial collection of brand new papers by some outstanding philosophers and scholars. Its aim is to offer comprehensive theistic replies to the traditional arguments against the existence of God.

The facts of causation
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ISBN: 0415197562 0415097797 9780415197564 Year: 1995 Publisher: London ; New York Routledge

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La causalité dans les sciences biologiques et médicales : Faut-il connaître les causes pour comprendre et intervenir?
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ISBN: 2759820467 Year: 2017 Publisher: Les Ulis, France : EDP Sciences,

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Le mot « cause » est fréquemment employé dans des publications scientifiques, parfois sans conscience claire de ce qu’il implique. Ce terme a une histoire philosophique au cours de laquelle sa signification et son usage dans les sciences ont été tantôt défendus, tantôt critiqués. D’une part la recherche de causes naturelles est bien constitutive du projet scientifique, d’autre part le terme de cause peut facilement véhiculer des conceptions naïves de la relation entre causes et effets, dont les conséquences peuvent être de retarder ou de mal orienter la recherche de facteurs de causalité. Les sciences biologiques et médicales sont riches d’exemples de ce type. Plusieurs questions peuvent être posées. Quelle est l’utilisation présente de la causalité dans les sciences biologiques et médicales ? Quelles sont les difficultés particulières liées à l’établissement des relations de causalité ? Comment ces difficultés peuvent-elles être surmontées ? L’identification de conditions causales permet-elle de prédire la succession de phénomènes physiologiques ? Est-il souhaitable de conserver le langage causaliste pour décrire des situations où règne le multifactoriel ? Comment mieux décrire ces situations par d’autres langages, et est-ce toujours possible ? Les textes réunis dans cet ouvrage sont pour la plupart issus du colloque « Faut-il connaître les causes pour comprendre et intervenir ? Questions sur la causalité dans les sciences biologiques et médicales », organisé le 31 mai 2016 par l’Académie des sciences, sur l’initiative de sa section de biologie humaine et sciences médicales.

Dispositions and causal powers
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ISBN: 1317149505 1317149491 128110440X 9786611104405 0754684504 9780754684503 0754654257 9780754654254 1315577615 Year: 2007 Publisher: Aldershot, England Burlington, VT Ashgate

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This collection of essays, by leading international researchers, examines the case for realism with respect to dispositions and causal powers in both metaphysics and science. Among the issues debated in this book is whether dispositions can be analyzed in terms of conditionals, whether all dispositions have a so-called categorical basis and, if they do, what is the relation between the disposition and its basis.

Darwin and design
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ISBN: 0674043014 9780674043015 9780674016316 067401023X 0674016319 9780674010239 0674266900 9780674266902 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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This history and exposition of Western thought about design in the natural world suggests directions for our thinking as we move into the 21st century. It contributes to the debate about the relationship between science and religion, and between evolution and its religious critics.


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Causality and motivation
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ISBN: 3110329573 9783110329575 3110329395 9783110329391 9783868380682 386838068X 9783110329391 386838068X 9783868380682 Year: 2010 Publisher: Frankfurt New Brunswick [NJ] Piscataway, NJ Ontos [Distributed in] North and South America by Transaction Books

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The belief is widely held that the physical world is causally-driven. The world is one because a tangled web of causally-driven processes keeps it together. However, both the psychological and the social worlds cannot be articulated in causal terms only. Hereby, "motivation" is used as the most general term referring to whatever keeps (synchronically) together and provides (diachronic) reasons explaining the behavior of psychological and social systems. In order to systematically address these problems, a categorical framework is needed for understanding the various types of realities population

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