Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Jeffrey H. Sicha, G.E.M. Anscombe and Edouard Machery
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26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 1. Natural Kinds
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Artifacts can be natural kinds, when they are the object of historical enquiry [Machery]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 5. Direction of causation
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With diseases we easily trace a cause from an effect, but we cannot predict effects [Anscombe]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 6. Causation as primitive
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The word 'cause' is an abstraction from a group of causal terms in a language (scrape, push..) [Anscombe]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata
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Causation is relative to how we describe the primary relata [Anscombe, by Schaffer,J]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / c. Conditions of causation
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Since Mill causation has usually been explained by necessary and sufficient conditions [Anscombe]
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