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Résumé Theories of actual causation formulated in the framework of causal models have made salient an interesting puzzle concerning the relationship between counterfactual dependence and causation. Even when theorists agree on the causal model appropriate …

In this talk, I will present the comparison between recent experimental results obtained by the quantum optics group at the ETH Zurich and theory predictions concerning thermoelectric effects in a two-terminal geometry realizing a cold atom equivalent of …

La relation microbiote-nutrition est sans doute l’un des domaines les plus visibles du mutualisme homme-microbes. Le microbiote intestinal métabolise des aliments ingérés par l’hôte et des éléments de l’hôte (mucines). Inversement, des produits du …

La vie passe ensuite par la barrière littorale et des analogies ont été établies avec la régulation anisosmotique extracellulaire (les milieux intérieurs et intracellulaires ont toujours la même osmolarité, quelle que soit celle du milieu extérieur) …

Résumé Dispositional realism, as I have defended it in Le Ciment des choses , relies on four main assumptions: 1. A causal theory of properties, 2. A conditional dispositionalist account of laws; 3.   Some kind of aliquidditism (or thin essentialism) . …

Résumé I explore the debate over the metaphysics of the direction of causal dependence and the temporal arrow in conjunction with the idea that causation is a productive relation. I show how evidence drawn from experience that seems to support a …