Thalos, Mariam

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This text argues that there is causation at every scale of measurement - countering the philosophical position that causation, or 'activity, ' occurs only at the minutest scales of measurement (the scale of microphysics). Thalos's scale-free model, as she shows, is much more hos…

This text argues that there is causation at every scale of measurement - countering the philosophical position that causation, or 'activity, ' occurs only at the minutest scales of measurement (the scale of microphysics). Thalos's scale-free model, as she shows, is much more hos…

A venerable tradition in the metaphysics of science commends ontological reduction: the practice of analysis of theoretical entities into further and further proper parts, with the understanding that the original entity is nothing but the sum of these. This tradition implicitly …