Mechanism and Causality in Biology and Economics

This volume addresses fundamental issues in the philosophy of science in the context of two most intriguing fields: biology and economics. Written by authorities and experts in the philosophy of biology and economics, Mechanism and Causality in Biology an

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Hsiang-Ke Chao Szu-Ting Chen Roberta L. Millstein Editors

Mechanism and Causality in Biology and Economics

Mechanism and Causality in Biology and Economics

History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences Volume 3 Editors: Charles T. Wolfe, Ghent University, Belgium Philippe Huneman, IHPST (CNRS/Universite´ Paris I Panthe´on-Sorbonne), France Thomas A.C. Reydon, Leibniz Universita¨t Hannover, Germany Editorial Board: Marshall Abrams (University of Alabama at Birmingham) Andre Ariew (Missouri) Minus van Baalen (UPMC, Paris) Domenico Bertoloni Meli (Indiana) Richard Burian (Virginia Tech) Pietro Corsi (EHESS, Paris) Franc¸ois Duchesneau (Universite´ de Montre´al) John Dupre´ (Exeter) Paul Farber (Oregon State) Lisa Gannett (Saint Mary’s University, Halifax) Andy Gardner (Oxford) Paul Griffiths (Sydney) Jean Gayon (IHPST, Paris) Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute, London) Thomas Heams (INRA, AgroParisTech, Paris) James Lennox (Pittsburgh) Annick Lesne (CNRS, UPMC, Paris) Tim Lewens (Cambridge) Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh) Alexandre Me´traux (Archives Poincare´, Nancy) Hans Metz (Leiden) Roberta Millstein (Davis) Staffan Mu¨ller-Wille (Exeter) Dominic Murphy (Sydney) Franc¸ois Munoz (Universite´ Montpellier 2) Stuart Newman (New York Medical College) Frederik Nijhout (Duke) Samir Okasha (Bristol) Susan Oyama (CUNY) Kevin Padian (Berkeley) David Queller (Washington University, St Louis) Ste´phane Schmitt (SPHERE, CNRS, Paris) Phillip Sloan (Notre Dame) Jacqueline Sullivan (Western University, London, ON) Giuseppe Testa (IFOM-IEA, Milano) J. Scott Turner (Syracuse) Denis Walsh (Toronto) Marcel Weber (Geneva)

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Hsiang-Ke Chao • Szu-Ting Chen Roberta L. Millstein Editors

Mechanism and Causality in Biology and Economics

Editors Hsiang-Ke Chao Department of Economics National Tsing Hua University Hsinchu, Taiwan

Szu-Ting Chen Graduate Institute of Philosophy National Tsing Hua University Hsinchu, Taiwan

Roberta L. Millstein Department of Philosophy University of California, Davis Davis, CA, USA

ISSN 2211-1948 ISSN 2211-1956 (electronic) ISBN 978-94-007-2453-2 ISBN 978-94-007-2454-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-2454-9 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London Library of Congress Control Number: 2013939059 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of th