How Can Instantaneous Velocity Fulfill Its Causal Role?
... one moment and its velocity at some later moment must have been caused by the body’s undergoing non-zero acceleration sometime in the intervening period, and every acceleration is caused by a force.1 Naturally, one way to argue that instantaneous velocity is epiphenomenal under the proper causal int ...
... one moment and its velocity at some later moment must have been caused by the body’s undergoing non-zero acceleration sometime in the intervening period, and every acceleration is caused by a force.1 Naturally, one way to argue that instantaneous velocity is epiphenomenal under the proper causal int ...
AN ARGUMENT AGAINST EPIPHENOMENALISM
... pairing. And the odds that even a handful of appropriate pairings would obtain are very, very low (the odds of one improbable thing happening are small, but the odds that numerous improbable things would happen are extremely small). In short, given epiphenomenalism, the fact that some qualia are pai ...
... pairing. And the odds that even a handful of appropriate pairings would obtain are very, very low (the odds of one improbable thing happening are small, but the odds that numerous improbable things would happen are extremely small). In short, given epiphenomenalism, the fact that some qualia are pai ...
Scotus_God_First_Principle_et_al
... nature and essence can exist without the posterior, but the reverse is not true. And this I understand as follows. Even though the prior should produce the posterior necessarily and consequently could not exist without it, it would not be because the prior requires the posterior for its own existen ...
... nature and essence can exist without the posterior, but the reverse is not true. And this I understand as follows. Even though the prior should produce the posterior necessarily and consequently could not exist without it, it would not be because the prior requires the posterior for its own existen ...
Kim`s Pairing Problem and the Viability of Substance Dualism
... appropriately pair the two relata together. Initially he examines two different ways one could provide a proper explanation of cause and effect pairing for two events. The first way is to trace a continuous causal chain between the two events in question. The second way is to construct a pairing rel ...
... appropriately pair the two relata together. Initially he examines two different ways one could provide a proper explanation of cause and effect pairing for two events. The first way is to trace a continuous causal chain between the two events in question. The second way is to construct a pairing rel ...
Mechanisms and the Nature of Causation
... at a single point. The points, while part of the of the field as a whole, have no physical signif? account It is crucial to a mechanical icance apart from this description. that a system display some behavior which can be explained by reference But there are not, in this case, of its constituents. t ...
... at a single point. The points, while part of the of the field as a whole, have no physical signif? account It is crucial to a mechanical icance apart from this description. that a system display some behavior which can be explained by reference But there are not, in this case, of its constituents. t ...
A unified account of causal relata
... p. 179) are as follows: events are identical (i) if and (ii) only if their causes and effects are identical. To be sure, these conditions ensure that no event can play several causal roles, since they individuate events precisely in terms of their role in the network of causal relations. There is, h ...
... p. 179) are as follows: events are identical (i) if and (ii) only if their causes and effects are identical. To be sure, these conditions ensure that no event can play several causal roles, since they individuate events precisely in terms of their role in the network of causal relations. There is, h ...
Another Argument for Animalism: The Argument from Causal Powers
... Simply put, this suppressed premise is meant to illustrate the explanatory redundancy, in positing two X’s that have identical causal powers to explain such-and-such, without good reason, when one X is sufficient to explain that such-and-such. Indeed, if we want to avoid gratuitous causal overdeterm ...
... Simply put, this suppressed premise is meant to illustrate the explanatory redundancy, in positing two X’s that have identical causal powers to explain such-and-such, without good reason, when one X is sufficient to explain that such-and-such. Indeed, if we want to avoid gratuitous causal overdeterm ...
Causal inference in the social sciences
... What types of clues suggest that the search for mechanisms is desirable in the circumstances? General clues: field of investigation, research purposes, subject of study, applicable methods, background knowledge. More specifically, consider Heckman’s MCF for measuring intervention. (If my conclu ...
... What types of clues suggest that the search for mechanisms is desirable in the circumstances? General clues: field of investigation, research purposes, subject of study, applicable methods, background knowledge. More specifically, consider Heckman’s MCF for measuring intervention. (If my conclu ...
Buddhist and Tantric Perspectives On Causality and Society Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... contrast, non-Humeans argue that causation is “…essentially singular: a matter of this causing that” (Koons 21; Psillos 5). Examples of this would be Ducasse’s single-difference account and Salmon’s mechanistic approach, where the relation between two events A and B are actual rather than conceptual ...
... contrast, non-Humeans argue that causation is “…essentially singular: a matter of this causing that” (Koons 21; Psillos 5). Examples of this would be Ducasse’s single-difference account and Salmon’s mechanistic approach, where the relation between two events A and B are actual rather than conceptual ...
Do the Causal Principles of Modern Physics Contradict Causal Anti
... adequate science must conform. It asks what that principle might assert. A survey (Norton, 2003, §2) of efforts over the centuries to articulate that principle reveals such a history of persistent failure that only the rashest could possibly expect a viable, factual principle still to emerge. Highli ...
... adequate science must conform. It asks what that principle might assert. A survey (Norton, 2003, §2) of efforts over the centuries to articulate that principle reveals such a history of persistent failure that only the rashest could possibly expect a viable, factual principle still to emerge. Highli ...
The Law of Cause and Effect
... electricity and magnetism fully implement the law of cause and effect in the manner of the four causes required by Aristotle. Chance-based physics is exposed as false science based on erroneous assumptions about supposed chance-events instead of causal relationships. ...
... electricity and magnetism fully implement the law of cause and effect in the manner of the four causes required by Aristotle. Chance-based physics is exposed as false science based on erroneous assumptions about supposed chance-events instead of causal relationships. ...
Having and Making Choices
... “…the causes of those in the left-hand column are of a different kind from the causes of those in the righthand column”(423) “Free acts are all caused by desires or motives or by some sort of internal psychological states of the agent’s mind” “Acts not freely done are those whose immediate causes ar ...
... “…the causes of those in the left-hand column are of a different kind from the causes of those in the righthand column”(423) “Free acts are all caused by desires or motives or by some sort of internal psychological states of the agent’s mind” “Acts not freely done are those whose immediate causes ar ...
Causality
Causality (also referred to as 'causation', or 'cause and effect') is the relation between an event (the cause) and a second event (the effect), where the first event is understood to be responsible for the second.In common usage, causality is also the relation between a set of factors (causes) and a phenomenon (the effect). Anything that affects an effect is a factor of that effect. A direct factor is a factor that affects an effect directly, that is, without any intervening factors. (Intervening factors are sometimes called ""intermediate factors"".) The connection between a cause(s) and an effect in this way can also be referred to as a causal nexus.Causes and effects are typically related to changes, events, or processes; such causes are Aristotle's moving causes. The word 'cause' is also used to mean 'explanation' or 'answer to a why question', including Aristotle's material, final, and formal causes; then the 'cause' is the explanans while the 'effect' is the explanandum. In this case, there are various recognizable kinds of 'cause'; candidates include objects, processes, properties, variables, facts, and states of affairs; failure to recognize that different kinds of 'cause' are being considered can lead to debate.The philosophical treatment on the subject of causality extends over millennia. In the Western philosophical tradition, discussion stretches back at least to Aristotle, and the topic remains a staple in contemporary philosophy.