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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| Formato: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2004 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:189727 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/189727 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Causality Natural laws Determinism Nomic necessity |
| Resumo: | 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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