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ALEXANDER GEBHARTER

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ALEXANDER GEBHARTER

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Alexander GEBHARTER
AREA MIN. 11 - Scienze storiche, filosofiche, pedagogiche e psicologiche
Dipartimento Scienze Biomediche e Sanita' Pubblica
Facolta' di MEDICINA e CHIRURGIA

41 pubblicazioni



Anno
Pubblicazioni
2026
A causal theory of suppositional reasoning
Anno: 2026
 Rivista: PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES
Autori/autrici: Gebharter, Alexander; Feldbacher-Escamilla, Christian J.; Sikorski, Michał
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/352315
Citazioni:
A causal theory of suppositional reasoning / Gebharter, A., Feldbacher-Escamilla, C.J., Sikorski, M.. - In: PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES. - ISSN 0031-8116. - 183:(2026), pp. 743-753. [10.1007/s11098-025-02472-z]
Abstract:
Suppositions can be classified as indicative versus subjunctive and full versus partial. We propose a causal account of suppositional reasoning that naturally unifies all four types of reasoning based on this classification, provides a justification of the rather heterogenous canonical update rules,...
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2026
The relevance principle from a causal perspective
Anno: 2026
 Rivista: EUROPEAN JOURNAL FOR PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Autori/autrici: Gebharter, Alexander; Sikorski, Michał
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/356312
Citazioni:
The relevance principle from a causal perspective / Gebharter, A., Sikorski, M.. - In: EUROPEAN JOURNAL FOR PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. - ISSN 1879-4912. - 16:(2026). [10.1007/s13194-026-00733-0]
Abstract:
The relevance principle plays a central role in the methodology of forensic science. Recently, it has been argued that it should also be applied in other scientific disciplines. The principle rules which information experts should use for evaluating evidence. A precise formulation has been given in ...
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2025
Causal Bayes nets and token-causation: Closing the gap between token-level and type-level
Anno: 2025
 Rivista: ERKENNTNIS
Autori/autrici: Gebharter, Alexander; Hüttemann, Andreas
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/313507
Citazioni:
Causal Bayes nets and token-causation: Closing the gap between token-level and type-level / Gebharter, A., Hüttemann, A.. - In: ERKENNTNIS. - ISSN 0165-0106. - 90:(2025), pp. 43-65. [10.1007/s10670-023-00684-5]
Abstract:
Causal Bayes nets (CBNs) provide one of the most powerful tools for modelling coarse-grained type-level causal structure. As in other fields (e.g., thermodynamics) the question arises how such coarse-grained characterizations are related to the characterization of their underlying structure (in this...
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2025
Redefining Representativeness of a Sample in Causal Terms
Anno: 2025
 Rivista: JOURNAL OF EVALUATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
Autori/autrici: Sikorski, Michał; Gebharter, Alexander; Osimani, Barbara
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/345733
Citazioni:
Redefining Representativeness of a Sample in Causal Terms / Sikorski, M., Gebharter, A., Osimani, B.. - In: JOURNAL OF EVALUATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE. - ISSN 1356-1294. - 31:4(2025). [10.1111/jep.70137]
Abstract:
Rationale: Despite its crucial role, sample representativeness remains a controversial topic in the methodology of medical science. There is an ongoing debate not only about how best to define and ensure the representativeness of a sample (e.g., Rudolph et al. 2023; Porta 2016), but also about wheth...
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2025
The Formal Structure(s) of Analogical Inference
Anno: 2025
 Rivista: ERKENNTNIS
Autori/autrici: Gebharter, Alexander; Osimani, Barbara
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/340633
Citazioni:
The Formal Structure(s) of Analogical Inference / Gebharter, A., Osimani, B.. - In: ERKENNTNIS. - ISSN 0165-0106. - 91:(2025), pp. 923-953. [10.1007/s10670-025-00934-8]
Abstract:
Recently, Dardashti et al. (Stud Hist Philos Sci Part B Stud Hist Philos Mod Phys 67:1–11, 2019) proposed a Bayesian model for establishing Hawking radiation by analogical inference. In this paper we investigate whether their model would work as a general model for analogical inference. We stu...
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2025
Probabilistic supervenience and agential possibilities
Anno: 2025
 Rivista: PHILOSOPHICAL EXPLORATIONS
Autori/autrici: Gebharter, Alexander; Sekatskaya, Maria
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/343792
Citazioni:
Probabilistic supervenience and agential possibilities / Gebharter, A., Sekatskaya, M.. - In: PHILOSOPHICAL EXPLORATIONS. - ISSN 1386-9795. - 28:3(2025), pp. 245-264. [10.1080/13869795.2025.2502373]
Abstract:
Compatibilist libertarianism proposes a new solution to the problem of an apparent incompatibility of free will and determinism. It drives a wedge between ontological levels and claims that free will is possible as a higher-level phenomenon even if the fundamental physical level is governed by deter...
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2025
The Criminalist's Paradox as a Counterexample to the Principle of Total Evidence
Anno: 2025
 Rivista: BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Autori/autrici: Sikorski, Michał; Gebharter, Alexander
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/340634
Citazioni:
The Criminalist's Paradox as a Counterexample to the Principle of Total Evidence / Sikorski, M., Gebharter, A.. - In: BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. - ISSN 0007-0882. - (2025). [Epub ahead of print] [10.1086/735282]
Abstract:
The principle of total evidence says that all relevant information should be considered when making an inference about a hypothesis. In this article, we argue that the criminalist’s paradox from the literature on the methodology of forensic science constitutes a counterexample against the prin...
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2024
Supervenient fixity and agential possibilities
Anno: 2024
 Rivista: THEORIA
Autori/autrici: Sekatskaya, Maria; Gebharter, Alexander
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/333632
Citazioni:
Supervenient fixity and agential possibilities / Sekatskaya, M., Gebharter, A.. - In: THEORIA. - ISSN 0040-5825. - 90:4(2024), pp. 400-416. [10.1111/theo.12551]
Abstract:
One of the central problems within the free will debate lies in the apparent incompatibility of an agent's ability to do otherwise and determinism. Recently, compatibilist libertarianism was proposed as an actualist position intended to finally reconcile both. In this article, we argue that in ...
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2024
Mental causation, interventionism, and probabilistic supervenience
Anno: 2024
 Rivista: SYNTHESE
Autori/autrici: Gebharter, Alexander; Sekatskaya, Maria
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/331633
Citazioni:
Mental causation, interventionism, and probabilistic supervenience / Gebharter, A., Sekatskaya, M.. - In: SYNTHESE. - ISSN 0039-7857. - 203:6(2024). [10.1007/s11229-024-04608-w]
Abstract:
Mental causation is notoriously threatened by the causal exclusion argument. A prominent strategy to save mental causation from causal exclusion consists in subscribing to an interventionist account of causation. This move has, however, recently been challenged by several authors. In this paper, we...
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2024
Modelling Cyclic Causal Structures
Anno: 2024
 Autori/autrici: Gebharter, Alexander; Leuridan, Bert
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/340632
Citazioni:
Modelling Cyclic Causal Structures / Gebharter, A., Leuridan, B.. - (2024), pp. 269-280. [10.4324/9781003528937-30]
Abstract:
Many causal systems studied by sciences such as biology, pharmacology, and economics feature causal cycles. Most accounts of causal modelling currently on the market are, however, explicitly designed to study acyclic structures. This chapter focuses on causal cycles and the challenges such cycles po...
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2023
Unification and explanation from a causal perspective
Anno: 2023
 Rivista: STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Autori/autrici: Gebharter, Alexander; Feldbacher-Escamilla, Christian J.
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/312767
Citazioni:
Unification and explanation from a causal perspective / Gebharter, A., Feldbacher-Escamilla, C.J.. - In: STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. - ISSN 0039-3681. - 99:(2023), pp. 28-36. [10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.12.005]
2023
Quantifying proportionality and the limits of higher-level causation and explanation
Anno: 2023
 Rivista: BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Autori/autrici: Gebharter, Alexander; Eronen Markus, I.
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/306261
Citazioni:
Quantifying proportionality and the limits of higher-level causation and explanation / Gebharter, A., Eronen Markus, I.. - In: BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. - ISSN 0007-0882. - 74:3(2023), pp. 573-601. [10.1086/714818]
Abstract:
Supporters of the autonomy of higher-level causation (or explanation) often appeal to pro- portionality, arguing that higher-level causes are more proportional than their lower-level realizers. Recently, measures based on information theory and causal modelling have been proposed that allow one to s...
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2022
Free Will, Control, and the Possibility to do Otherwise from a Causal Modeler’s Perspective
Anno: 2022
 Rivista: ERKENNTNIS
Autori/autrici: Gebharter, Alexander; Sekatskaya, Maria; Schurz, Gerhard
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/306247
Citazioni:
Free Will, Control, and the Possibility to do Otherwise from a Causal Modeler’s Perspective / Gebharter, A., Sekatskaya, M., Schurz, G.. - In: ERKENNTNIS. - ISSN 0165-0106. - 87:4(2022), pp. 1889-1906. [10.1007/s10670-020-00281-w]
Abstract:
Strong notions of free will are closely connected to the possibility to do otherwise as well as to an agent’s ability to causally influence her environment via her decisions controlling her actions. In this paper we employ techniques from the causal modeling literature to investigate whether a...
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2022
A causal Bayes net analysis of Glennan’s mechanistic account of higher-level causation (and some consequences)
Anno: 2022
 Rivista: BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Autori/autrici: Gebharter, Alexander
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/306246
Citazioni:
A causal Bayes net analysis of Glennan’s mechanistic account of higher-level causation (and some consequences) / Gebharter, A.. - In: BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. - ISSN 0007-0882. - 73:1(2022), pp. 185-210. [10.1093/bjps/axz034]
Abstract:
One of Glennan’s ([1996]) most prominent contributions to the new mechanist debate consists in his reductive analysis of higher-level causation in terms of mechanisms. In this article I employ causal Bayes nets (CBNs) to reconstruct his analysis. This allows for identifying general assumptions...
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2021
A causal Bayes net analysis of dispositions
Anno: 2021
 Rivista: SYNTHESE
Autori/autrici: Gebharter, Alexander; Fischer, Florian
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/306251
Citazioni:
A causal Bayes net analysis of dispositions / Gebharter, A., Fischer, F.. - In: SYNTHESE. - ISSN 0039-7857. - 198:5(2021), pp. 4873-4895. [10.1007/s11229-019-02374-8]
Abstract:
In this paper we develop an analysis of dispositions in terms of causal Bayes nets. In particular, we analyze dispositions as generic cause-effect structures that increase the probability of the manifestation when the stimulus is brought about by intervention in certain circumstances. We then highli...
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2021
The role of source reliability in belief polarisation
Anno: 2021
 Rivista: SYNTHESE
Autori/autrici: Henderson, Leah; Gebharter, Alexander
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/306265
Citazioni:
The role of source reliability in belief polarisation / Henderson, L., Gebharter, A.. - In: SYNTHESE. - ISSN 0039-7857. - 199:3-4(2021), pp. 10253-10276. [10.1007/s11229-021-03244-y]
Abstract:
Psychological studies show that the beliefs of two agents in a hypothesis can diverge even if both agents receive the same evidence. This phenomenon of belief polarisation is often explained by invoking biased assimilation of evidence, where the agents’ prior views about the hypothesis affect ...
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2021
The causal theory of knowledge revisited: An interventionist approach
Anno: 2021
 Rivista: RATIO
Autori/autrici: de Grefte, Job; Gebharter, Alexander
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/306256
Citazioni:
The causal theory of knowledge revisited: An interventionist approach / de Grefte, J., Gebharter, A.. - In: RATIO. - ISSN 1467-9329. - 34:3(2021), pp. 193-202. [10.1111/rati.12304]
Abstract:
Goldman proposed that a subject (Formula presented.) knows (Formula presented.) if and only if (Formula presented.) is appropriately causally connected to (Formula presented.) 's believing (Formula presented.). He later on abandoned this theory. The main objection to the theory is that the caus...
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2021
Combining causal Bayes nets and cellular automata: A hybrid modelling approach to mechanisms
Anno: 2021
 Rivista: BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Autori/autrici: Gebharter, Alexander; Koch, Daniel
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/306264
Citazioni:
Combining causal Bayes nets and cellular automata: A hybrid modelling approach to mechanisms / Gebharter, A., Koch, D.. - In: BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. - ISSN 0007-0882. - 72:3(2021), pp. 839-864. [10.1093/bjps/axy049]
Abstract:
Causal Bayes nets (CBNs) can be used to model causal relationships up to whole mechanisms. Though modelling mechanisms with CBNs comes with many advantages, CBNs might fail to adequately represent some biological mechanisms because—as Kaiser ([2016]) pointed out— they have problems with ...
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2020
A new proposal how to handle counterexamples to Markov causation à la Cartwright, or: fixing the chemical factory
Anno: 2020
 Rivista: SYNTHESE
Autori/autrici: Gebharter, Alexander; Retzlaff, Nina
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/306263
Citazioni:
A new proposal how to handle counterexamples to Markov causation à la Cartwright, or: fixing the chemical factory / Gebharter, A., Retzlaff, N.. - In: SYNTHESE. - ISSN 0039-7857. - 197:4(2020), pp. 1467-1486. [10.1007/s11229-018-02014-7]
Abstract:
Cartwright (Synthese 121(1/2):3-27, 1999a; The dappled world, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999b) attacked the view that causal relations conform to the Markov condition by providing a counterexample in which a common cause does not screen off its effects: the prominent chemical factory. I...
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2020
Free will as a higher-level phenomenon?
Anno: 2020
 Rivista: THOUGHT
Autori/autrici: Gebharter, Alexander
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/306245
Citazioni:
Free will as a higher-level phenomenon? / Gebharter, A.. - In: THOUGHT. - ISSN 2161-2234. - 9:3(2020), pp. 177-187. [10.1002/tht3.461]
Abstract:
List (2014, 2019) has recently argued for a particular view of free will as a higher-level phenomenon compatible with determinism. According to List, one could refute his account by showing that determinism at the physical level implies the impossibility of doing otherwise at the agential level. Thi...
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2020
Confirmation Based on Analogical Inference: Bayes Meets Jeffrey
Anno: 2020
 Rivista: CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
Autori/autrici: Feldbacher-Escamilla Christian, J.; Gebharter, Alexander
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/306252
Citazioni:
Confirmation Based on Analogical Inference: Bayes Meets Jeffrey / Feldbacher-Escamilla Christian, J., Gebharter, A.. - In: CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY. - ISSN 1911-0820. - 50:2(2020), pp. 174-194. [10.1017/can.2019.18]
Abstract:
Certain hypotheses cannot be directly confirmed for theoretical, practical, or moral reasons. For some of these hypotheses, however, there might be a workaround: confirmation based on analogical reasoning. In this paper we take up Dardashti, Hartmann, Thebault, and Winsberg's (2019) idea of ana...
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2019
Modeling creative abduction Bayesian style
Anno: 2019
 Rivista: EUROPEAN JOURNAL FOR PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Autori/autrici: Feldbacher-Escamilla Christian, J.; Gebharter, Alexander
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/306249
Citazioni:
Modeling creative abduction Bayesian style / Feldbacher-Escamilla Christian, J., Gebharter, A.. - In: EUROPEAN JOURNAL FOR PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. - ISSN 1879-4912. - 9:1(2019), p. 9. [10.1007/s13194-018-0234-4]
Abstract:
Schurz (Synthese 164:201–234, 2008) proposed a justification of creative abduction on the basis of the Reichenbachian principle of the common cause. In this paper we take up the idea of combining creative abduction with causal principles and model instances of successful creative abduction wit...
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2019
Establishing Backward Causation on Empirical Grounds: An Interventionist Approach
Anno: 2019
 Rivista: THOUGHT
Autori/autrici: Gebharter, Alexander; Graemer, Dennis; Scheffels, Frenzis
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/306244
Citazioni:
Establishing Backward Causation on Empirical Grounds: An Interventionist Approach / Gebharter, A., Graemer, D., Scheffels, F.. - In: THOUGHT. - ISSN 2161-2234. - 8:2(2019), pp. 129-138. [10.1002/tht3.414]
Abstract:
We propose an analysis of backward causation in terms of interventionism that can avoid several problems typically associated with backward causation. Its main advantage over other accounts is that it allows for reducing the problematic task of supporting backward causal claims to the unproblematic ...
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2017
Causal exclusion without physical completeness and no overdetermination
Anno: 2017
 Rivista: ABSTRACTA
Autori/autrici: Gebharter, Alexander
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/306281
Citazioni:
Causal exclusion without physical completeness and no overdetermination / Gebharter, A.. - In: ABSTRACTA. - ISSN 1807-9792. - 10:(2017), pp. 3-14.
Abstract:
Hitchcock (2012) demonstrated that the validity of causal exclusion arguments as well as the plausibility of several of their premises hinges on the specific theory of causation endorsed. In this paper I show that the validity of causal exclusion arguments if represented within the theory of causal ...
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2017
Causal Nets, Interventionism, and Mechanisms: Philosophical Foundations and Applications
Anno: 2017
 Autori/autrici: Gebharter, Alexander
Classificazione IRIS: 3.1 Monografia o trattato scientifico
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/306262
Citazioni:
Causal Nets, Interventionism, and Mechanisms: Philosophical Foundations and Applications / Gebharter, A.. - 381:(2017). [10.1007/978-3-319-49908-6]
2017
A causal Bayesian network model of disease progression mechanisms in chronic myeloid leukemia
Anno: 2017
 Rivista: JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY
Autori/autrici: Koch, Daniel; Eisinger, Robert; Gebharter, Alexander
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/306259
Citazioni:
A causal Bayesian network model of disease progression mechanisms in chronic myeloid leukemia / Koch, D., Eisinger, R., Gebharter, A.. - In: JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY. - ISSN 1095-8541. - 433:(2017), pp. 94-105. [10.1016/j.jtbi.2017.08.023]
Abstract:
Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a cancer of the hematopoietic system initiated by a single genetic mutation which results in the oncogenic fusion protein Bcr-Abl. Untreated, patients pass through different phases of the disease beginning with the rather asymptomatic chronic phase and ultimately cu...
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2017
Uncovering constitutive relevance relations in mechanisms
Anno: 2017
 Rivista: PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES
Autori/autrici: Gebharter, Alexander
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/306260
Citazioni:
Uncovering constitutive relevance relations in mechanisms / Gebharter, A.. - In: PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES. - ISSN 1573-0883. - 174:11(2017), pp. 2645-2666. [10.1007/s11098-016-0803-3]
Abstract:
In this paper I argue that constitutive relevance relations in mechanisms behave like a special kind of causal relation in at least one important respect: Under suitable circumstances constitutive relevance relations produce the Markov factorization. Based on this observation one may wonder whether ...
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2017
Causal Exclusion and Causal Bayes Nets
Anno: 2017
 Rivista: PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Autori/autrici: Gebharter, Alexander
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/306243
Citazioni:
Causal Exclusion and Causal Bayes Nets / Gebharter, A.. - In: PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH. - ISSN 1933-1592. - 95:2(2017), pp. 353-375. [10.1111/phpr.12247]
Abstract:
In this paper I reconstruct and evaluate the validity of two versions of causal exclusion arguments within the theory of causal Bayes nets. I argue that supervenience relations formally behave like causal relations. If this is correct, then it turns out that both versions of the exclusion argument a...
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2016
Another problem with RBN models of mechanisms
Anno: 2016
 Rivista: THEORIA
Autori/autrici: Gebharter, Alexander
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/306250
Citazioni:
Another problem with RBN models of mechanisms / Gebharter, A.. - In: THEORIA. - ISSN 0495-4548. - 31:2(2016), pp. 177-188. [10.1387/theoria.14502]
Abstract:
Casini, Illari, Russo, and Williamson (2011) suggest to model mechanisms by means of recursive Bayesian networks (RBNs) and Clarke, Leuridan, and Williamson (2014) extend their modeling approach to mechanisms featuring causal feedback. One of the main selling points of the RBN approach should be tha...
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2016
Constitutive relevance, mutual manipulability, and fat-handedness
Anno: 2016
 Rivista: BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Autori/autrici: Baumgartner, Michael; Gebharter, Alexander
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/306266
Citazioni:
Constitutive relevance, mutual manipulability, and fat-handedness / Baumgartner, M., Gebharter, A.. - In: BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. - ISSN 0007-0882. - 67:3(2016), pp. 731-756. [10.1093/bjps/axv003]
Abstract:
The first part of this article argues that if Craver's ([2007a], [2007b]) popular mutual manipulability account (MM) of mechanistic constitution is embedded within Woodward's ([2003]) interventionist theory of causation-for which it is explicitly designed-it either undermines the mechanist...
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2016
A modeling approach for mechanisms featuring causal cycles
Anno: 2016
 Rivista: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Autori/autrici: Gebharter, Alexander; Schurz, Gerhard
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/306253
Citazioni:
A modeling approach for mechanisms featuring causal cycles / Gebharter, A., Schurz, G.. - In: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. - ISSN 0031-8248. - 83:5(2016), pp. 934-945. [10.1086/687876]
Abstract:
Mechanisms play an important role in many sciences when it comes to questions concerning explanation, prediction, and control. Answering such questions in a quantitative way requires a formal representation of mechanisms. Gebharter’s “A Formal Framework for Representing Mechanisms?&rdquo...
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2016
Causality as a theoretical concept: explanatory warrant and empirical content of the theory of causal nets
Anno: 2016
 Rivista: SYNTHESE
Autori/autrici: Schurz, Gerhard; Gebharter, Alexander
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/306254
Citazioni:
Causality as a theoretical concept: explanatory warrant and empirical content of the theory of causal nets / Schurz, G., Gebharter, A.. - In: SYNTHESE. - ISSN 0039-7857. - 193:4(2016), pp. 1073-1103. [10.1007/s11229-014-0630-z]
Abstract:
We start this paper by arguing that causality should, in analogy with force in Newtonian physics, be understood as a theoretical concept that is not explicated by a single definition, but by the axioms of a theory. Such an understanding of causality implicitly underlies the well-known theory of caus...
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2014
How Occam's razor provides a neat definition of direct causation
Anno: 2014
 Autori/autrici: Gebharter, Alexander; Schurz, Gerhard
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/306284
Citazioni:
How Occam's razor provides a neat definition of direct causation / Gebharter, A., Schurz, G.. - (2014).
2014
Philosophy of Science in Germany, 1992-2012: Survey-Based Overview and Quantitative Analysis
Anno: 2014
 Rivista: JOURNAL FOR GENERAL PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Autori/autrici: Unterhuber, Matthias; Gebharter, Alexander; Schurz, Gerhard
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/306255
Citazioni:
Philosophy of Science in Germany, 1992-2012: Survey-Based Overview and Quantitative Analysis / Unterhuber, M., Gebharter, A., Schurz, G.. - In: JOURNAL FOR GENERAL PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. - ISSN 0925-4560. - 45:S1(2014), pp. 71-160. [10.1007/s10838-014-9270-8]
Abstract:
An overview of the German philosophy of science community is given for the years 1992-2012, based on a survey in which 159 philosophers of science in Germany participated. To this end, the institutional background of the German philosophy of science community is examined in terms of journals, center...
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2014
Causal graphs and biological mechanisms
Anno: 2014
 Autori/autrici: Gebharter, Alexander; Kaiser Marie, I.
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/306248
Citazioni:
Causal graphs and biological mechanisms / Gebharter, A., Kaiser Marie, I.. - 367:(2014), pp. 55-85. [10.1007/978-94-007-7563-3_3]
Abstract:
Modeling mechanisms is central to the biological sciences-for purposes of explanation, prediction, extrapolation, and manipulation. A closer look at the philosophical literature reveals that mechanisms are predominantly modeled in a purely qualitative way. That is, mechanistic models are conceived o...
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2014
A formal framework for representing mechanisms?
Anno: 2014
 Rivista: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Autori/autrici: Gebharter, Alexander
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/306257
Citazioni:
A formal framework for representing mechanisms? / Gebharter, A.. - In: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. - ISSN 0031-8248. - 81:1(2014), pp. 138-153. [10.1086/674206]
Abstract:
In this article I tackle the question of how the hierarchical order of mechanisms can be representedwithin a causal graph framework. I illustrate an answer to this question proposed by Casini, Illari, Russo, andWilliamson and provide an example that their formalism does not support two important fea...
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2013
Solving the Flagpole Problem
Anno: 2013
 Rivista: JOURNAL FOR GENERAL PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Autori/autrici: Gebharter, Alexander
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/306282
Citazioni:
Solving the Flagpole Problem / Gebharter, A.. - In: JOURNAL FOR GENERAL PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. - ISSN 0925-4560. - 44:1(2013), pp. 63-67. [10.1007/s10838-013-9208-6]
Abstract:
In this paper I demonstrate that the causal structure of flagpole-like systems can be determined by application of causal graph theory. Additional information about the ordering of events in time or about how parameters of the systems of interest can be manipulated is not needed.
2012
For a better understanding of causality
Anno: 2012
 Rivista: METASCIENCE
Autori/autrici: Gebharter, Alexander; Schurz, Gerhard
Lingua: ENG
Classificazione IRIS: 1.2 Recensione in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/306283
Citazioni:
For a better understanding of causality / Gebharter, A., Schurz, G.. - In: METASCIENCE. - ISSN 0815-0796. - 21:(2012), pp. 643-648. [10.1007/s11016-012-9648-3]
2011
The argument from hallucination in the light of modern formal philosophy
Anno: 2011
 Autori/autrici: Gebharter, Alexander; Mirnig Alexander, G.
Classificazione IRIS: 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/306286
Citazioni:
The argument from hallucination in the light of modern formal philosophy / Gebharter, A., Mirnig Alexander, G.. - (2011), pp. 85-96.
2010
From a mereotopological point of view: Putting the scientific magnifying glass on Kant's first antinomy
Anno: 2010
 Rivista: KRITERION
Autori/autrici: Gebharter, Alexander; Mirnig Alexander, G.
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/306287
Citazioni:
From a mereotopological point of view: Putting the scientific magnifying glass on Kant's first antinomy / Gebharter, A., Mirnig Alexander, G.. - In: KRITERION. - ISSN 1019-8288. - 23:1(2010), pp. 64-85.
2010
Disjunctivism: An Answer to Two Pseudo-Problems?
Anno: 2010
 Rivista: CONCEPTUS
Autori/autrici: Gebharter, Alexander; Mirnig Alexander, G.
Classificazione IRIS: 1.1 Articolo in rivista
Scheda completa IRIS: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/306285
Citazioni:
Disjunctivism: An Answer to Two Pseudo-Problems? / Gebharter, A., Mirnig Alexander, G.. - In: CONCEPTUS. - ISSN 0010-5155. - 39:95(2010), pp. 61-84. [10.1515/cpt-2010-9503]





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