Making sense of downward causation in manipulationism: Illustrations from cancer research

History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 537-562

  Malaterre, Christophe ^a  

^a Universite Paris 2   (France)

Author keywords

Cancer research; Causal granularity; Downward causation; Levels of causation; Manipulationism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; PHILOSOPHY;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CAUSALITY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL;

EID: 84859741432     PISSN: 03919714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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