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The lawless causes of covid-19: an uncontrolled experiment

2025-10-23

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This paper seeks to articulate a causal explanation of the covid-19 pandemic by bringing into dialogue two seemingly unrelated works: Leyes sin causa y causas sin ley en la explicación biológica, by philosopher of biology Gustavo Caponi, and the essay “Another Silent Spring”, by environmental historian Donald Worster. Caponi, whose book was written well before the pandemic, offers epistemological tools that unders...

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945efe04-1fab-56ea-9e1d-45a477996ae2
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10.1590/scielopreprints.13652
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