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Brian J Hanley

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ID5969871
NAMEBrian J Hanley
GIVEN NAMESBrian J
FAMILY NAMEHanley
SIGNATUREHANLEY B J
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS1
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR1
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1
  • What Caused the Bhopal Gas Tragedy? The Philosophical Importance of Causal and Pragmatic Details

    Open Access•Brian Hanley, Brian J Hanley•ARTICLE•Philosophy of Science•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 16

    In cases in which many causes together bring about an effect, it is common to select some as particularly important. Philosophers since Mill have been pessimistic about analyzing this reasoning because of its variability and the multifarious causal and pragmatic details of how it works. I argue Mill was right to think these details matter but wrong that they preclude philosophical analysis of causal selection. I show that analyzing the pragmatic …

  • What Caused the Bhopal Gas Tragedy? The Philosophical Importance of Causal and Pragmatic Details

    Open Access•Brian Hanley, Brian J Hanley•ARTICLE•Philosophy of Science•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 16

    In cases in which many causes together bring about an effect, it is common to select some as particularly important. Philosophers since Mill have been pessimistic about analyzing this reasoning because of its variability and the multifarious causal and pragmatic details of how it works. I argue Mill was right to think these details matter but wrong that they preclude philosophical analysis of causal selection. I show that analyzing the pragmatic …

  • What Caused the Bhopal Gas Tragedy? The Philosophical Importance of Causal and Pragmatic Details

    Open Access•Brian Hanley, Brian J Hanley•ARTICLE•Philosophy of Science•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 16

    In cases in which many causes together bring about an effect, it is common to select some as particularly important. Philosophers since Mill have been pessimistic about analyzing this reasoning because of its variability and the multifarious causal and pragmatic details of how it works. I argue Mill was right to think these details matter but wrong that they preclude philosophical analysis of causal selection. I show that analyzing the pragmatic …

Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Causal analysis (1 work) · Causal reasoning (1 work) · Causality (physics) (1 work) · Causation (1 work) · Cognition (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Economics (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work)

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