Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Dennis Whitcomb, Alan Musgrave and R.D. Ingthorsson
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 2. Types of cause
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Humeans describe the surface of causation, while powers accounts aim at deeper explanations [Ingthorsson]
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Time and space are not causal, but they determine natural phenomena [Ingthorsson]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation
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Casuation is the transmission of conserved quantities between causal processes [Ingthorsson]
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Interventionist causal theory says it gets a reliable result whenever you manipulate it [Ingthorsson]
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Causation as transfer only works for asymmetric interactions [Ingthorsson]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata
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Causal events are always reciprocal, and there is no distinction of action and reaction [Ingthorsson]
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One effect cannot act on a second effect in causation, because the second doesn't yet exist [Ingthorsson]
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Empiricists preferred events to objects as the relata, because they have observable motions [Ingthorsson]
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Science now says all actions are reciprocal, not unidirectional [Ingthorsson]
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Causes are not agents; the whole interaction is the cause, and the changed compound is the effect [Ingthorsson]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / c. Counterfactual causation
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People only accept the counterfactual when they know the underlying cause [Ingthorsson]
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Counterfactuals don't explain causation, but causation can explain counterfactuals [Ingthorsson]
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Counterfactual theories are false in possible worlds where causation is actual [Ingthorsson]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity
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A cause can fail to produce its normal effect, by prevention, pre-emption, finks or antidotes [Ingthorsson]
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