Agency, Causation, and Empiricism

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2021-03-01

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Davoody Benı, Majıd

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Price claims that the agency theory of causation could be understood as a sophisticated form of either realism or empiricism (but not a simple-minded form of any of them). In this paper, I argue that the agency theory could find a more congenial ally in constructive empiricism (rather than realism) and show that this new alliance would be profitable to both constructive empiricism and the agency theory of causation.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/89533

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THEORIA-A SWEDISH JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY

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https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12311

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M. Davoody Benı, “Agency, Causation, and Empiricism,” THEORIA-A SWEDISH JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, pp. 0–0, 2021, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/89533.