Philosophy of Science, Vol. 35, No. 4 (Dec., 1968), pp. 332-354 (23 pages) After precisely specifying the thesis of the causal theory of time, Grünbaum's program developed to support this thesis is ...

Causal Set Theory (CST) offers a compelling approach to reconciling quantum theory and general relativity by postulating that spacetime, at its most fundamental level, is discrete rather than ...

Researchers developed theoretical foundations for methods that could identify the best way to aggregate genes into modules and efficiently learn the underlying cause-and-effect relationships among ...

The causal theory of reference is often taken to provide a solution to the problems, such as incomparability and referential discontinuity, that the meaning-change thesis raised. I show that Kuhn ...

In his 1890 opus, The Principles of Psychology, William James invoked Romeo and Juliet to illustrate what makes conscious beings so different from the particles that make them up. “Romeo wants Juliet ...

Correspondence to Dr Rasmus Oestergaard Nielsen, Department of Public Health, Section for Sports Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus 8000, Denmark; roen{at}ph.au.dk Background It is widely accepted ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA – By studying changes in gene expression, researchers learn how cells function at a molecular level, which could help them understand the development of certain diseases. But a human has ...