Abstract Objects and Causation: Bringing Causation Back Into Contemporary Platonism

Abstract Objects and Causation: Bringing Causation Back Into Contemporary Platonism

• Type	Journal Article
  Author	Charles Taliaferro
  Rights	© 2015 Aletheia - Associação Científica e Cultural | © 2015 Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia
  Volume	71
  Issue	4
  Pages	769-780
  Publication	Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia
  ISSN	0870-5283; 2183-461X
  Date	2015
  DOI	10.17990/rpf/2015_71_4_0769
  Language	English
  Abstract	Resumo: Defende-se a existência de objectos abstractos e o papel causal destes, em uma ontologia platónica, tal como foi sugerido pelo trabalho de Roderick Chisholm. Se esta proposta é plausível, então a natureza e o papel destes abstracta, que se postulam sob a forma de estados de coisas, dão-nos razões para acreditar na possibilidade de uma descrição bem-sucedida e explicativa da intencionalidade humana e animal (tanto em termos de atitudes intencionais, como crenças, e em termos de explicações intencionais) que não esteja restringida ao mundo físico.  Palavras-chave: causalidade, encerramento causal, fisicalismo, objectos abstractos, platonismo, Roderick Chisholm  Abstract: A defense of the existence and causal role of abstract objects in a Platonic ontology as influenced by the work of Roderick Chisholm. If plausible, the nature and role of abstracta in the form of states of affairs gives us some reason to believe that a successful description and explanation of human and animal intentionality (both in terms of intentional attitudes like beliefs and in terms of intentional explanations) that is not closed to the physical world.  Keywords: abstract objects, causal closure, causation, physicalism, platonism, Roderick Chisholm
  Date Added	28/07/2015, 12:02:15
  Modified	10/12/2015, 15:29:20

  Tags:

  • Abstract objects
  • Causal closure
  • Causation
  • Physicalism
  • Platonism
  • Roderick Chisholm

  Notes:

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