Activities and causation

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This paper details the ontological and epistemic character of activties that occur in mechanisms. It explains why they are sufficient to handle the problems of causation.

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A glimpse of the.Stathis Psillos - 2004 - Perspectives on Science 12 (3):288-319.

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