Coherent causal control: a new distinction within causation

Weber, Marcel

doi:10.1007/s13194-022-00499-1

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“…Recent literature on causal explanation has moved toward articulating even more fine-grained domain-specific features of explanatory relevance, e.g. the identification of causes in biological systems(Weber, 2022).12 The psychological aspects identified are sometimes further explained through sociobiology, genetics, or evolutionary processes.ERCK…”

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Etiology of injustice: An introduction

Erck

2024

Philosophy Compass

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To formulate a plan of action for bringing about a decisive and reasonably stable end to an injustice, it is helpful to understand the factors and conditions that critically make the difference in causing that injustice. This intuitively seems correct regarding active and ongoing problems. But what precisely is involved in this kind of explanatory endeavor, and what is its role in practical efforts to confront existing wrongs? This paper offers an introduction to etiology of injustice, which is the study and explanation of the operative causation of injustices. Drawing on insights from the philosophy of social transformation, causation, and remedial justice, I sketch a conceptual framework for understanding and undertaking the task of etiology of injustice and outline the contours of the etiological tradition of thought.

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Etiology of injustice: An introduction

Erck

2024

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“… 3 For the integrative role of control see for example work on the integration of biological control mechanisms in biological organizations by Bich and Bechtel ( 2022 ), and Weber’s notion of ‘coherent causal control’ (Weber 2022 ), a form of control which causes a change in the distribution of values of the downstream variables from some initial state to a coherent state that supports some coordinated biological activity. This paper adopts an approach closer to the former (mechanistic) account, which is more fine-grained and includes the requirement that control plays a regulatory function within the organism by contributing to its maintenance (see Weber 2022 for a discussion of this difference between the two approaches). …”

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Integrating Multicellular Systems: Physiological Control and Degrees of Biological Individuality

Bich

2023

Acta Biotheor

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This paper focuses on physiological integration in multicellular systems, a notion often associated with biological individuality, but which has not received enough attention and needs a thorough theoretical treatment. Broadly speaking, physiological integration consists in how different components come together into a cohesive unit in which they are dependent on one another for their existence and activity. This paper argues that physiological integration can be understood by considering how the components of a biological multicellular system are controlled and coordinated in such a way that their activities can contribute to the maintenance of the system. The main implication of this perspective is that different ways of controlling their parts may give rise to multicellular organizations with different degrees of integration. After defining control, this paper analyses how control is realized in two examples of multicellular systems located at different ends of the spectrum of multicellularity: biofilms and animals. It focuses on differences in control ranges, and it argues that a high degree of integration implies control exerted at both medium and long ranges, and that insofar as biofilms lack long-range control (relative to their size) they can be considered as less integrated than other multicellular systems. It then discusses the implication of this account for the debate on physiological individuality and the idea that degrees of physiological integration imply degrees of individuality.

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Engaging the many-hands problem of generative-AI outputs: a framework for attributing credit

Khosrowi,

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Clark

2024

AI Ethics

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The recent wave of generative AI (GenAI) systems like Stable Diffusion or ChatGPT that can produce images, text and code from human prompts raises controversial issues about creatorship, originality, creativity and copyright. This paper focuses on creatorship: who creates and should be credited with the outputs made with the help of GenAI? There is currently significant moral, legal and regulatory uncertainty around these questions. We develop a novel framework, called CCC (collective-centered creation), that helps resolve this uncertainty. According to CCC, GenAI outputs are created by collectives in the first instance. Claims to creatorship come in degrees and depend on the nature and significance of individual contributions made by the various agents and entities involved, including users, GenAI systems, developers, producers of training data and others. We demonstrate how CCC can help navigate a range of ongoing controversies around the responsible development and deployment of GenAI technologies and help more accurately attribute credit where it is due.

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Coherent causal control: a new distinction within causation

Cited by 5 publications

References 31 publications

Etiology of injustice: An introduction

Etiology of injustice: An introduction

Integrating Multicellular Systems: Physiological Control and Degrees of Biological Individuality

Engaging the many-hands problem of generative-AI outputs: a framework for attributing credit

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