1st Edition
Scientific Explanation, Causality, and Agency A Free Energy Account
By Majid D. Beni
Copyright 2025
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. A Humanistic Perspective on Causality and Explanation
2. The Free Energy Principle
3. Rolling Stones, Simple and Sophisticated
4. Deconstructing Modalities
5. The Agency Theory of Explanation
6. Proportionality's Path
7. Neither a Physicalist nor a Non-Physicalist Be
8. Distributed Agency and the Puzzle of Individuation
Biography
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.
