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    Enç's use of 'causation' should not be interpreted as cla... — Carmelics
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    Enç's use of 'causation' should not be interpreted as claiming that reductive explanation is literally causal explanation

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    • 1.Enç describes the reductive dependence relation as 'generative' and as one that may hold between an object a and an object b even if a equals b
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    • 2.The relation Enç describes does not fit the standard usage of the term 'causation'
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    • 3.Standard causal relations do not hold between an object and itself
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    • 1.Immanent causation—causation where cause and effect are identical or overlapping—is a coherent notion defended by Aristotle and revived by E.J. Lowe.
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    • 2.If immanent causation is philosophically respectable, then Enç's 'generative' relation holding between a and itself is compatible with genuine causal explanation.
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    • 3.Dismissing the causal reading on grounds that causes and effects must be numerically distinct presupposes a Humean regularity view that Enç need not accept.
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    • 1.Jaegwon Kim's account of reductive explanation in 'Mind in a Physical World' explicitly identifies micro-to-macro reductive relations with causal-mechanical explanations.
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    • 2.If the dominant tradition in reduction literature treats reductive dependence as causal, the burden of proof falls on those who claim Enç's similar terminology is non-causal.
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    • 3.Terminological charity in philosophical interpretation requires reading 'causation' in its literal sense unless the author explicitly stipulates otherwise.
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    Mechanistic explanation is non-causal, and so is reductive explanation. However, sometimes, reductionist models are phrased in causal terminology. Enç (1976) is a case in point. He describes reductive explanation and reductive dependence as causal. The description he gives of this relation, however, does not fit the usual use of the term ‘causation’. Enç describes it as a ‘generative’ relation that may hold between an object a and an object b even if a=b. Hence, despite the fact that he uses the
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