Search results for "Causatio"
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Micro-macro. Note su un'idea di Douglas Hofstadter
2010
The paper aims to explain the theoretical meaning of the so-called down-ward causation. It is a fundamental property of the emergent systems.
Saggezza dei patterns e nuove strategie cooperative
2013
The paper aims to analyze the concept of downward causation and the role that it plays in the theoretical frameworks of biology and cognitive science.
Environmental Risk Score of subclinical Psychopathology risk in children
2020
Current knowledge on environmental causation for psychiatric disorders suggests a complex picture with a multitude of social, physical and chemical exposures occurring at different stages of life. ...
A Fair Share of Work: Is Fairness of Task Distribution a Mediator Between Transformational Leadership and Follower Emotional Exhaustion?
2019
Drawing on social resource theory and the norm of equity, this research proposes fairness of task distribution as a mediating mechanism of the well-established relationship between transformational leadership and followers’ well-being, conceptualizing the latter as low emotional exhaustion. Using data from 479 German employees in a three-wave longitudinal study, we found transformational leadership to be related to fair task distribution over time. The perceived fairness of task distribution mediated the relationship between transformational leadership and follower emotional exhaustion (structural equation modeling) when excluding stabilities. Our results also show a reverse causation effec…
Inferences are just folk psychology
2004
To speak of “inferences,” “interpretations,” and so forth is just folk psychology. It creates new homunculi, and it is also implausible from a purely phenomenological perspective. Phenomenal volition must be described in the conceptual framework of an empirically plausible theory of mental representation. It is a non sequitur to conclude from dissociability that the functional properties determining phenomenal volition never make a causal contribution. I have offered an alternative interpretation of some of Dan Wegner’s most relevant data elsewhere (Metzinger 2003, p. 506ff), and will confine myself to three conceptual points here. Wegner’s project could be further strengthened by eliminati…
Linguaggio Tempo Narrazione
2009
La natura del segno linguistico è esaminata attraverso le nozioni matematiche di linearità e non-linearità. The paper aims to explain two distinct but related aspects of the linguistic sign. That is to say: linearity and non-linearity. In order to satisfy this theoretical purpose, we will seek to analyze the conceptual background of saussurean linguistics in the light of some insights of the so-called emergentist epistemologies. As we will show, the concept of downward causation play a pivotal role in such a theoretical framework.
Effectuation and foreign market entry of entrepreneurial firms
2015
Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the decision-making process for entrepreneurial firms when entering foreign markets and how and why they entered those markets. Design/methodology/approach – A nascent theory in entrepreneurship called effectuation is combined with internationalization process theory as the conceptual framework to study decision-making under uncertainty. The central concept in both these theories is relationships and how they can be used to gain knowledge and thus reduce uncertainty and in the case of effectuation to co-create opportunities to enter foreign markets. The research design involves a multiple case study of software firms from Finland and New Ze…
Assessing the role of evidence of mechanisms in causal extrapolation
2020
Extrapolation of causal claims from study populations to other populations of interest is a problematic issue. The standard approach in experimental research, which prioritises randomized controlled trials and statistical evidence, is not devoid of difficulties. Granted that, it has been defended that evidence of mechanisms is indispensable for causal extrapolation. We argue, contrarily, that this sort of evidence is not indispensable. Nonetheless, we also think that occasionally it may be helpful. In order to clarify its relevance, we introduce a distinction between a positive and a negative role of evidence of mechanisms. Our conclusion is that the former is highly questionable, but the l…
Minds, causes, and mechanisms [Introducció]
2000
This book questions the internal consistency of causal physicalism, and vindicates a novel approach to mental causation. Throught a series of original and detailed arguments, it is made clear that many difficulties in the physicalist picture derive from an implausible view about causality. An alternative approach is defended which shows how mental contents, as opposed to functional propierties, may be causally efficacious without having an implementing mechanism.
Inadempimento e causalità nelle obbligazioni di fare professionale
2020
Il saggio analizza e tenta di confutare i recenti tentativi, giurisprudenziali e dottrinari, di ritagliare alle obbligazioni di facere professionale un regime apposito di responsabilità contrattuale, specie sul versante della rilevanza autonoma del nesso di causalità materiale e dell’imposizione al creditore del relativo onere probatorio. Muovendo dall’esame dell’oggetto delle obbligazioni di facere professionale, il saggio si prefigge di offrire una conferma dell’unitarietà delle regole di responsabilità contrattuale e della ripartizione dei temi di prova tra creditore e debitore. The essay analyzes and tries to refute recent attempts, both in jurisprudence and in doctrine, to cut out to t…