Rather few contemporary philosophers could accept all of Reid's central claims agent causation, teleological accounts of action, and occasionalism not being the dominant views of our day.
Some argue that vitamin D deficiency is central to the causation of cancer and influential in the pathophysiology at a molecular level (Liu et al, 2003; Schwartz et al, 2005; Ingraham et al, 2008; Manson et al, 2011).
The recent rapid increase in the overall prevalence of obesity in children and adolescents indicates that environmental factors, and particularly behaviours linked to diet and physical activity, are central to the causation of obesity [ 2].
Many, however including Salmon remained convinced that the notion of causation is central to the understanding of explanation and that scientific explanation is a matter of tracing causes.
Because reliance and loss causation, two central elements of plaintiffs' case, "necessarily rely on expert testimony," Judge Gertner intimated that if Dr. Hakala's testimony were excluded, her conditional summary judgment decision would have to be revisited.
Judge Gertner pointed out that reliance and loss causation, two central elements of plaintiffs' securities fraud case, "necessarily rely on [the] expert testimony" of Dr. Hakala, implying that if the Court were to exclude the testimony of Dr. Hakala after a Daubert hearing, it would necessarily have to revisit its summary judgment decision.
Earlier, we pointed out that the central question of mental causation is not so much whether mental properties are causally relevant but how they could be, given some alleged feature of mental properties (in the case at issue here, the feature is their being relational properties).
The main objection to eliminativism is that causation is too central to eliminate.
The second main argument for primitivism is that causation is too central to reduce.
However, in this group of gastroenterologists, there appears to be skepticism towards psychological disorders themselves or antidepressant therapy having a central role in either the causation of IBD or its clinical course.
