id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_a3edk6bg7zegjlojfra5i6npki Jim Bogen Causally productive activities 2008 12 .pdf application/pdf 11287 727 59 our understanding of specific causally productive activities (e.g., pulling, scraping, burning), and from her rejection of the assumption Anscombe held that general causal concepts like causing, bringing about, making The Anscombian alternative appeals not to counterfactuals but to facts about the chemicals and the causally productive activities they engage in. mechanism that produced it, the causally productive activities in which they engage, and how they contribute to the production of the e!ect of interest. Their examples of causally productive activities (invoked to explain neuronal signaling) include such things as releasing neuro-transmitters, chemical non-disjunctive feature (of no more than manageable complexity), then what makes the concept of a causally productive activity any more interesting than a randomly causally productive activity a concept is more like what analogy are not to be confused with the facts that determine whether or how an activity makes a causal contribution to the production of an e!ect. ./cache/work_a3edk6bg7zegjlojfra5i6npki.pdf ./txt/work_a3edk6bg7zegjlojfra5i6npki.txt