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SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION, CAUSALITY, AND AGENCY [electronic resource] : a free energy account

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Beni, Majid D.
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[Place of publication not identified] : ROUTLEDGE, 2024.
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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 Agencywill appeal to researchers and advanced students working inphilosophy of science, philosophy of cognitive science, epistemology, computational neuroscience, and theoretical biology.
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9781040093153 (electronic bk.)
1040093159 (electronic bk.)
9781003463122 (electronic bk.)
1003463126 (electronic bk.)
9781040093160 (electronic bk. : EPUB)
1040093167 (electronic bk. : EPUB)
1032720298
9781032720296
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