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Scientific Explanation, Causality, and Agency

A Free Energy Account

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.

Instead of attempting to establish the elements of scientific explanation, such as causality, in a reality unadulterated by a human perspective, this book relies on scientific facts about cognition to describe the structure of agency from a distinctly human perspective.

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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.

Instead of attempting to establish the elements of scientific explanation, such as causality, in a reality unadulterated by a human perspective, this book relies on scientific facts about cognition to describe the structure of agency from a distinctly human perspective. The book draws on the Free Energy Principle to reinforce the agency theory of causality and extend it to an account of explanation as well. This principle not only provides a theoretical account of how self-organising systems engage with the causal structure of the environment, but it also offers a viable notion of agency and is compatible with the projectivist aspects of the agency theory.

Scientific Explanation, Causality, and Agency will appeal to researchers and advanced students working in philosophy of science, philosophy of cognitive science, epistemology, computational neuroscience, and theoretical biology.

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Forlag
Routledge
Innbinding
Innbundet
Språk
Engelsk
Sider
190
ISBN
9781032720296
Utgivelsesår
2024
Format
23 x 15 cm

Om forfatteren

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.

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