These rules are sensitive to semantic notions like change of state, direct causation, affectedness, and the like.
This is more about whose history is being constructed and told, and how causation is attributed.
An alternative materialist account of resurrection is offered, one in which immanent causation is not necessary.
Some writers in the mechanismic school appear to take the position that, without supporting evidence at the micro-foundational level, causation has not been proven.
Since theistic uses of the concept of causation do not, he charges them with being unintelligible.
Furthermore, even for scholars who are dubious about the prospects for generalization or uninterested in its pursuit, theoretical explorations of historical causation remain important.
Functionalist analyses of representations as making irreducible differences to behavior are piecemeal vindications of the scientific significance of oldfashioned agent causation.
In any case, it is a notable feature of the current methodological ferment that causation has re-entered the discourse of social science.
