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      Micro-causation
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      Micro-causation

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      Micro-causation book

      Micro-causation

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      Micro-causation book

      ByAndreas Huttemann
      BookWhat's Wrong With Microphysicalism?

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      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2003
      Imprint Routledge
      Pages 13
      eBook ISBN 9780203390771
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      ABSTRACT

      In this chapter we are going to rebut the last of the readings of the microphysicalist’s thesis: micro-causation. Micro-causation is the thesis that all macro-causal relations occur in virtue of micro-causal relations. The causal relations among compound systems are entirely derivative of those of their parts. This thesis should not be conflated with a thesis that contrasts causal relations among micro-based properties of systems with those of the correlated macro-properties of the same systems. Micro-causation, as we will discuss it, concerns the question whether parts as opposed to wholes are the real causal agents. It does not concern the relation of two properties of the same system.

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