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Single Idea 1894
[filed under theme 26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation
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Full Idea
Some affirm cause to be corporeal, some incorporeal.
Gist of Idea
Some say that causes are physical, some say not
Source
Sextus Empiricus (Outlines of Pyrrhonism [c.180], III.14)
Book Ref
Sextus Empiricus: 'Outlines of Pyrrhonism', ed/tr. Bury,R.G. [Prometheus 1990], p.191
The
28 ideas
with the same theme
[causation explained in terms of natural phenomena]:
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Is there cause outside matter, and can it be separated, and is it one or many?
[Aristotle]
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1894
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Some say that causes are physical, some say not
[Sext.Empiricus]
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7563
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The old 'influx' view of causation says it is a flow of accidental properties from A to B
[Suárez, by Jolley]
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12497
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Causes are the substances which have the powers to produce action
[Locke]
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8412
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A causal interaction is when two processes intersect, and correlated modifications persist afterwards
[Salmon]
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18380
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Negative causations supervene on positive causations plus their laws?
[Armstrong]
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8326
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Science has shown that causal relations are just transfers of energy or momentum
[Fair, by Sosa/Tooley]
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10379
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Fair shifted his view to talk of counterfactuals about energy flow
[Fair, by Schaffer,J]
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8416
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Reductionists can't explain accidents, uninstantiated laws, probabilities, or the existence of any laws
[Tooley]
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8328
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Causation isn't energy transfer, because an electron is caused by previous temporal parts
[Sosa/Tooley]
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8327
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If direction of causation is just direction of energy transfer, that seems to involve causation
[Sosa/Tooley]
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2542
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Causation in the material world is energy-transfer, of motion, electricity or gravity
[McGinn]
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11937
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We should analyse causation in terms of powers, not vice versa
[Molnar]
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8387
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A cause has its effects in virtue of its properties
[Crane]
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14586
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Physical causation consists in transference of conserved quantities
[Dowe, by Mumford/Anjum]
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4787
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Causation interaction is an exchange of conserved quantities, such as mass, energy or charge
[Dowe, by Psillos]
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9493
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We should explain causation by powers, not powers by causation
[Bird]
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10366
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Causation transcends nature, because absences can cause things
[Schaffer,J]
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10377
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Causation may not be a process, if a crucial part of the process is 'disconnected'
[Schaffer,J]
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10378
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A causal process needs to be connected to the effect in the right way
[Schaffer,J]
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10382
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Causation can't be a process, because a process needs causation as a primitive
[Schaffer,J]
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17494
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Since causal events are related by mechanisms, causation can be analysed in that way
[Glennan]
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14563
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Causation is the passing around of powers
[Mumford/Anjum]
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23013
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The main process theory of causation says it is transference of mass, energy, momentum or charge
[Baron/Miller]
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23014
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If causes are processes, what is causation by omission? (Distinguish legal from scientific causes?)
[Baron/Miller]
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22608
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Casuation is the transmission of conserved quantities between causal processes
[Ingthorsson]
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22614
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Interventionist causal theory says it gets a reliable result whenever you manipulate it
[Ingthorsson]
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22621
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Causation as transfer only works for asymmetric interactions
[Ingthorsson]
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