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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Autor: Hoefer, Carl
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2004
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:Causality
Natural laws
Determinism
Nomic necessity
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spelling Causality and DeterminismTension, or Outright Conflict?Hoefer, CarlCausalityNatural lawsDeterminismNomic necessityIn 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. 22004-01-0120042004-01-01Articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://ddd.uab.cat/record/189727reponame:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UABinstname:Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, la comunicació pública de l'obra i la creació d'obres derivades, fins i tot amb finalitats comercials, sempre i quan es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ddd.uab.cat:1897272026-06-06T12:50:31Z
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Tension, or Outright Conflict?
title Causality and Determinism
spellingShingle Causality and Determinism
Hoefer, Carl
Causality
Natural laws
Determinism
Nomic necessity
title_short Causality and Determinism
title_full Causality and Determinism
title_fullStr Causality and Determinism
title_full_unstemmed Causality and Determinism
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dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Hoefer, Carl
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Natural laws
Determinism
Nomic necessity
topic Causality
Natural laws
Determinism
Nomic necessity
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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