Causality and Determinism
In the philosophical tradition, the notions of determinism and causality are strongly linked: it is assumed that in a world of deterministic laws, causality may be said to reign supreme; and in any world where the causality is strong enough, determinism must hold. I will show that these alleged link...
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| Fecha de publicación: | 2004 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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| Palabra clave: | Causality Natural laws Determinism Nomic necessity |
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| description | In the philosophical tradition, the notions of determinism and causality are strongly linked: it is assumed that in a world of deterministic laws, causality may be said to reign supreme; and in any world where the causality is strong enough, determinism must hold. I will show that these alleged linkages are based on mistakes, and in fact get things almost completely wrong. In a deterministic world that is anything like ours, there is no room for genuine causation. Though there may be stable enough macro-level regularities to serve the purposes of human agents, the sense of "causality" that can be maintained is one that will at best satisfy Humeans and pragmatists, not causal fundamentalists. |
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| spelling | Causality and Determinism Tension, or Outright Conflict? Hoefer, Carl Causality Natural laws Determinism Nomic necessity In the philosophical tradition, the notions of determinism and causality are strongly linked: it is assumed that in a world of deterministic laws, causality may be said to reign supreme; and in any world where the causality is strong enough, determinism must hold. I will show that these alleged linkages are based on mistakes, and in fact get things almost completely wrong. In a deterministic world that is anything like ours, there is no room for genuine causation. Though there may be stable enough macro-level regularities to serve the purposes of human agents, the sense of "causality" that can be maintained is one that will at best satisfy Humeans and pragmatists, not causal fundamentalists. https://ddd.uab.cat/record/189727 |
| spellingShingle | Causality and Determinism Hoefer, Carl Causality Natural laws Determinism Nomic necessity |
| title | Causality and Determinism |
| title_full | Causality and Determinism |
| title_fullStr | Causality and Determinism |
| title_full_unstemmed | Causality and Determinism |
| title_short | Causality and Determinism |
| title_sort | Causality and Determinism |
| topic | Causality Natural laws Determinism Nomic necessity |
| topic_facet | Causality Natural laws Determinism Nomic necessity |
| url | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/189727 |