Can communities cause?

被引：7

作者：

Lean, Christopher Hunter ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Sydney, Sch Hist & Philosoph Enquiry, Dept Philosophy, Sydney, NSW, Australia

来源：

BIOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY | 2019年 / 34卷 / 06期

基金：

澳大利亚研究理事会;

关键词：

Ecological communities; Causation; Philosophy of ecology; Microbiome; MICROBIOME; STABILITY;

D O I：

10.1007/s10539-019-9715-x

中图分类号：

N09 [自然科学史]; B [哲学、宗教];

学科分类号：

01 ; 0101 ; 010108 ; 060207 ; 060305 ; 0712 ;

摘要：

Lynch et al. (Biol Philos, 2019) propose an extremely useful framework to assess microbiome research. By utilising advances in the causation literature, they argue that many of the claims in microbiome research are 'weak or misleading' as these claims lack stability, specificity, or proportionality. In the final paragraph before the conclusion they entertain and rapidly dismiss the 'ecological version' of microbiomes, in which microbiome properties are emergent from their constituent populations and can fulfil Koch's postulates. I assess the possibility of microbiomes having emergent causal efficacy on host health and suggest they can.

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