Majid D. Beni

Scientific Explanation, Causality, and Agency (eBook, ePUB)

A Free Energy Account

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book draws on advances in computational neuroscience and theoretical biology to provide a clear and accessible agentive account of the nature of causality and scientific explanations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040093160
• Artikelnr.: 70703203

Autorenporträt

Majid D. Beni is a philosopher of science and cognitive science. He is affiliated with METU/ODTU Ankara. He is the author of Cognitive Structural Realism and Structuring the Self, and has published numerous papers in journals such as Synthese, Minds and Machines, and Theoria.

Inhaltsangabe

1. A Humanistic Perspective on Causality and Explanation 2. The Free Energy
Principle 3. Rolling Stones, Simple and Sophisticated 4. Deconstructing
Modalities 5. The Agency Theory of Explanation 6. Proportionality's Path 7.
Neither a Physicalist nor a Non-Physicalist Be 8. Distributed Agency and
the Puzzle of Individuation