Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Jeremy Bentham, Wesley Salmon and Daniel Garber
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 1. Nature
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Unnatural, when it means anything, means infrequent [Bentham]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / g. Atomism
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Epicurean atoms are distinguished by their extreme hardness [Garber]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation
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A causal interaction is when two processes intersect, and correlated modifications persist afterwards [Salmon]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 5. Direction of causation
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Cause must come first in propagations of causal interactions, but interactions are simultaneous [Salmon]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata
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Instead of localised events, I take enduring and extended processes as basic to causation [Salmon]
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Salmon says processes rather than events should be basic in a theory of physical causation [Salmon, by Psillos]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / e. Probabilistic causation
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Probabilistic causal concepts are widely used in everyday life and in science [Salmon]
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