Causal Predicates, Causal Principles, and the Core of Causation
Uwe Meixner, “Causal Predicates, Causal Principles, and the Core of Causation,” Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 77, no. 4 (2021): 1153–74, https://doi.org/10.17990/RPF/2021_77_4_1153.
Uwe Meixner, “Causal Predicates, Causal Principles, and the Core of Causation,” Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 77, no. 4 (2021): 1153–74, https://doi.org/10.17990/RPF/2021_77_4_1153.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Uwe Meixner |
Rights | © 2021 by Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia |
Volume | 77 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 1153-1174 |
Publication | Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia |
ISSN | 0870-5283 |
Date | 2021 |
DOI | 10.17990/RPF/2021_77_4_1153 |
Language | English |
Abstract | How might one tackle the subject of causation with the least amount of preformed conceptions – and arrive by a series of well-motivated conceptual decisions at a concept of causation that captures the “heart of the matter”? This essay is a sustained attempt to answer this question. On the way, causal predicates of various degrees of importance are defined and causal principles of various degrees of plausibility discussed, all of this in the service of approaching, step by step, “the heart of the matter.” |
Date Added | 1/31/2022, 10:52:02 PM |
Modified | 1/31/2022, 11:27:36 PM |
Meixner, Uwe. Theorie der Kausalität. Ein Leitfaden zum Kausalbegriff in zwei Teilen. Paderborn: Mentis, 2001.