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Thermoelectric experiments on nanostructures are often complicated by the need to apply a temperature difference of a few K across a device a few 100 nm in size. In semiconductors, such large gradients lead to very strong phonon drag effects, …

Résumé In Making Things Happen, I claimed that it is methodologically useful to interpret causal claims as claims about what would happen under interventions. This "interventionist" idea has been criticized on a number of grounds. Among other …

Résumé Causal models, such as structural equation models and causal Bayes nets, naturally provide a conception of causal paths and path-specific effects. These ideas have also been used in accounts of actual causation. In this talk, I explore the …

Résumé "Difference-making" accounts of causation have recently been put to use in solving the "exclusion problem": the problem of explaining how mental properties can be causes if they supervene on but are not identical with their physical realisers. One …

Résumé I shall discuss the commitments of the counterfactual theory of causation and how it may be defended against competitors. …

Résumé How does a fertilized egg develop into an embryo and subsequently into an adult form? The issue of what causes morphogenesis has fascinated philosophers and biologists alike, at least since Aristotle. One particularly influential and long-running …

Résumé Constant Conjunction (CC) is criticized by causal realists as being insufficient for causation. Realists often want causation to be CC + something more, such as necessity. But CC is not even a necessary condition for causation, which ought really …

Résumé Ned Hall has argued and many others have concurred that we have two related concepts of causation, roughly one of causation as "production" and one of causation as "dependence". If the two-concept thesis is correct, there is apparently a pervasive …

Résumé I argue that there are good theoretical reasons to hold that possible causation and actual causation exist on the same continuum, and suggest that this view can help us account for various controversial cases of redundant causation and causation by …

Résumé In 1953 de Broglie's student, Olivier Costa de Beauregard, raised what he took to be an objection to the EPR argument. He pointed out that the EPR assumption of Locality might fail, without action-at-a-distance, so long as the influence in question …

Résumé Étude de « L’architecture des forts de l’armée romaine dans le désert Oriental d’Égypte » dans une perspective comparatiste avec les forts du Limes …

Résumé Les grandes questions environnementales aujourd'hui sont celles de l'énergie, de l'eau, du changement climatique et de la biodiversité. La biodiversité est née dans l'océan ancestral, bâtie sur la chimie pré-biotique issue d'une géo-diversité …