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'works (all lost)', 'Causality and Determinism' and 'The Philosophy of Nature: new essentialism'
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26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 1. Natural Kinds
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Natural kinds are of objects/substances, or events/processes, or intrinsic natures [Ellis]
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26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 4. Source of Kinds
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Essentialism says natural kinds are fundamental to nature, and determine the laws [Ellis]
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26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 6. Necessity of Kinds
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For essentialists two members of a natural kind must be identical [Ellis]
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The whole of our world is a natural kind, so all worlds like it necessarily have the same laws [Ellis]
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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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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity
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Essentialists regard inanimate objects as genuine causal agents [Ellis]
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Essentialists believe causation is necessary, resulting from dispositions and circumstances [Ellis]
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A general theory of causation is only possible in an area if natural kinds are involved [Ellis]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 1. Laws of Nature
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For 'passivists' behaviour is imposed on things from outside [Ellis]
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The laws of nature imitate the hierarchy of natural kinds [Ellis]
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Laws of nature tend to describe ideal things, or ideal circumstances [Ellis]
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We must explain the necessity, idealisation, ontology and structure of natural laws [Ellis]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / a. Regularity theory
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Causal relations cannot be reduced to regularities, as they could occur just once [Ellis]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / a. Scientific essentialism
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Essentialists say dispositions are basic, rather than supervenient on matter and natural laws [Ellis]
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The essence of uranium is its atomic number and its electron shell [Ellis]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / b. Scientific necessity
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For essentialists, laws of nature are metaphysically necessary, being based on essences of natural kinds [Ellis]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / d. Knowing essences
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Essentialism requires a clear separation of semantics, epistemology and ontology [Ellis]
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