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work_l7pvk5f5gvaxlm7v3ztbvli7ae	David Evan Pence	Potential Controversies: Causation and the Hodgkin and Huxley Equations	2017	17	.pdf	application/pdf	5643	421	62	The import of Hodgkin and Huxley's classic model of the action potential has been hotly Hodgkin and Huxley's model is both causal and, in an important sense, The Hodgkin and Huxley model of the action potential is in many ways the last thing one What Hodgkin and Huxley provided, they argue, was a phenomenal model able Hodgkin and Huxley do not offer a causal interpretation of the model in their paper. their contemporaries interpreted the model (including the controversial conductance terms) I argue that Hodgkin and Huxley explained the action potential as they conceived knowledge to meaningfully interpret the model (and the conductance terms in particular) seen in the HH model (that conductance is a function of voltage, say) and causal relations interpretation in their writing, quotes where Hodgkin and Huxley seem to rebuff causal Huxley thought of the conductances in causal terms (see above) but because their methods 	./cache/work_l7pvk5f5gvaxlm7v3ztbvli7ae.pdf	./txt/work_l7pvk5f5gvaxlm7v3ztbvli7ae.txt