Dispositional versus epistemic causality

Minds and Machines

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 259-276

  Williamson, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capacities; Causality; Causation; Dispositions

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

CAPACITIES; CAUSALITY; CAUSATION; DISPOSITIONS;

FORMAL LOGIC;

EID: 33751188492     PISSN: 09246495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11023-006-9033-3     Document Type: Article

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