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Philosophie de la physique et des systèmes complexes| old_uid | 9272 |
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| title | Philosophie de la physique et des systèmes complexes |
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| start_date | 2010/11/19 |
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| schedule | 14h-16h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | Practical causal generalizations such as “Smoking causes lung cancer” and “Selt Belts Save Lives” are supposed to help guide practice. Since both lung cancer and death are to be avoided, these generalizations apparently give us reason to avoid smoking and to wear seat belts. Mere correlations, in contrast, are not a good basis for action. The fact that death rates are much higher in hospitals than out of them is not a good reason not to go to hospital. Woodward attributes the reason-giving power of causal generalizations to their invariance, but it is not obvious that practical causal generalizations are invariant or, for that matter, that they provide strong reasons for action. |
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| responsibles | Drouet, Martin |
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