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Single Idea 22606
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Full Idea
Neo-Humean metaphysics holds the view that there are no substantial connections between anything in this world.
Gist of Idea
Neo-Humeans say there are no substantial connections between anything
Source
R.D. Ingthorsson (A Powerful Particulars View of Causation [2021], 1)
Book Ref
'Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time', ed/tr. Callender,Craig [OUP 2013], p.4
A Reaction
A very illuminating comment. This exactly fits Lewis's great 'mosaic' of facts. The challenge is to say what 'substantial' relations there might be, but I'm quite happy to have a go at that.
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from R.D. Ingthorsson
22606
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Neo-Humeans say there are no substantial connections between anything
[Ingthorsson]
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22605
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Humeans describe the surface of causation, while powers accounts aim at deeper explanations
[Ingthorsson]
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22607
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Time and space are not causal, but they determine natural phenomena
[Ingthorsson]
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22608
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Casuation is the transmission of conserved quantities between causal processes
[Ingthorsson]
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22609
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Philosophers accepted first-order logic, because they took science to be descriptive, not explanatory
[Ingthorsson]
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22610
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It is difficult to handle presentism in first-order logic
[Ingthorsson]
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22611
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Metaphysics can criticise interpretations of science theories, and give good feedback
[Ingthorsson]
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22639
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Causal events are always reciprocal, and there is no distinction of action and reaction
[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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22613
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Most materialist views postulate smallest indivisible components which are permanent
[Ingthorsson]
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22612
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Endurance and perdurance just show the consequences of A or B series time
[Ingthorsson]
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22615
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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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22616
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Empiricists preferred events to objects as the relata, because they have observable motions
[Ingthorsson]
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22617
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Science now says all actions are reciprocal, not unidirectional
[Ingthorsson]
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22618
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In modern physics the first and second laws of motion (unlike the third) fail at extremes
[Ingthorsson]
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22619
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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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22620
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If causation involves production, that needs persisting objects
[Ingthorsson]
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22621
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Causation as transfer only works for asymmetric interactions
[Ingthorsson]
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22622
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Any process can go backwards or forwards in time without violating the basic laws of physics
[Ingthorsson]
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22624
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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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22625
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Science suggests causal aspects of the constitution and persistance of objects
[Ingthorsson]
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22627
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Compound objects are processes, insofar as change is essential to them
[Ingthorsson]
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22629
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Basic processes are said to be either physical, or organic, or psychological
[Ingthorsson]
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22630
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If particles have decay rates, they can't really be elementary, in the sense of indivisible
[Ingthorsson]
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22631
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Properties are said to be categorical qualities or non-qualitative dispositions
[Ingthorsson]
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22632
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Physics understands the charge of an electron as a power, not as a quality
[Ingthorsson]
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22633
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Indirect realists are cautious about the manifest image, and prefer the scientific image
[Ingthorsson]
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22634
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Counterfactuals don't explain causation, but causation can explain counterfactuals
[Ingthorsson]
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22635
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People only accept the counterfactual when they know the underlying cause
[Ingthorsson]
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22637
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Counterfactual theories are false in possible worlds where causation is actual
[Ingthorsson]
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22636
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Every philosophical theory must be true in some possible world, so the ontology is hopeless
[Ingthorsson]
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22638
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Worlds may differ in various respects, but no overall similarity of worlds is implied
[Ingthorsson]
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