Search results for "Causatio"
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An overview of the Private Enforcement of Competition Law in Italy
2020
The Essay focuses on many key aspects of the implementation of Directive 104/2014 UE in Italy: Which entity is liable for damages; the law in action of the binding effects of decisions of competition authorities; the law limitations of actions for damages; the Collective actions/pooling of claims. The Author then focuses on some further missing pieces of the puzzle: causation and quantification of damages.
Jim's Responsibiity. Further Reflections on Bernard Williams' "Jim and the Indians".
2009
Emergence, Life, and Complexity
2021
This paper aims at explaining some pivotal features of the concept of emergence: a) downward causation; b) process-ontology; c) configurational metaphysics.
The embodied sources of purpose expressions in Latin
2016
This chapter examines the phrasal means of encoding the semantic role of purpose in Latin. After discussing the notion of semantic role and its use in cognitive linguistics, we illustrate the conceptual relation between the notional domains of space and causation. On this basis, we analyze the source of purpose expressions in Latin, which are mainly based on direction (bare dative and the allative markers, i.e. ad / in + accusative), but also include prepositional phrases metaphorically derived from location (e.g. per + accusative, prō + ablative, propter + accusative), or metonymically spreading from reason to purpose (as in the case of causal markers such as genitive + causā and gratiā ).
Self-Causation and Unity in Stoicism
2021
Abstract According to the Stoics, ordinary unified bodies—animals, plants, and inanimate natural bodies—each have a single cause of unity and being: pneuma. Pneuma itself has no distinct cause of unity; on the contrary, it acts as a cause of unity and being for itself. In this paper, I show how pneuma is supposed to be able to unify itself and other bodies in virtue of its characteristic tensile motion (τονικὴ κίνησις). Thus, we will see how the Stoics could have hoped to account for corporeal unity by positing another body (pneuma) apparently itself in need of unification.
From Zeno to Chrysippus
2015
This chapter is about the origin and development of early Stoic epistemology. I discuss how Zeno of Citium, the founder of the Stoa, was influenced by his predecessors and interpreted by his successors. I argue that Stoicism rely on two basic assumptions for which Socrates is the main predecessor, namely that human beings are at home in the world and that it is only by using our rational abilities to detect salient truths and organize them into skills that we can successfully orient ourselves in this world. This Socratic-Stoic position relies on a naturalistic theory of concept acquisition, for which Aristotle is the main predecessor, or so I argue. I then look at how Zeno’s original episte…
Intervals of quasi-decompositionality and mechanistic explanations
2019
Abstract: It is commonly assumed that the concept of mechanism is a keytool for the scientific understanding of observable phenomena. However, there is no single definition of mechanism in the current philosophy of science. In fact, philosophers have developed several characterizations of what seemed to be a clear intuitive concept for scientists. In this paper, I will analyze these philosophical conceptions of mechanism, highlighting their problematic aspects and proposing a new mechanistic approach based on the idea that the pertinent levels of organization for a mechanistic explanation can be identified with intervals of quasi-decompositionality. I argue that this approach allows us to c…
Mind, brain, and downward causation
2011
Este trabajo tiene tres partes. En la primera, exponemos algunas nociones básicas, como las de causalidad mental e intencional, así como la de causalidad misma; procedemos a continuación a formular algunas tesis, inspiradas en las ciencias naturales, y a mostrar cómo parecen entrar en conflicto con la aceptación de la causalidad intencional. Este conflicto es el núcleo del problema de la causalidad mental. En la segunda parte, presentamos y discutimos brevemente algunas propuestas para abordar este problema, y tratamos de sacar a la luz sus dificultades. Finalmente, en la tercera parte, planteamos tentativamente algunas sugerencias sobre el modo en que el problema de la causalidad intencion…
Job Characteristics, Recovery Experiences and Occupational Well-being: Testing Cross-lagged Relationships across 1 Year
2013
The aim of the present study conducted among 274 Finnish employees was to examine the relationships between job characteristics, recovery experiences and occupational well-being across 1 year. We hypothesized that these relationships would follow normal causation, that is, job characteristics at T1 predict recovery experiences (detachment, relaxation, mastery and control at off-job time) and well-being (fatigue at work and work engagement) at T2, and recovery experiences at T1 predict well-being at T2. The structural equation modelling analyses lent support to the hypothesized normal causation model compared with the reversed causation and reciprocal models. However, only the longitudinal r…
Air Transportation and Regional Growth: Which Way Does the Causality Run?
2013
The role of airports has become increasingly important with globalization. To have a regional airport is an especially important asset for retaining companies in the region as well as attracting new economic activity to the region. A well-developed transport infrastructure can be seen as a facilitator that allows the economic potential of a region to be realized. The provision of transportation does not, however, automatically lead to economic growth. It may also be the other way round: economic development leads to the better transport infrastructure and accessibility, stressing demand side elements. This paper aims to shed further light on the relationship between regional airports and ec…