11 ideas
17527 | Causation seems to be an innate concept (or acquired very early) [Bird] |
3444 | If actions are not caused by other events, and are not causeless, they must be caused by the person [Chisholm] |
3446 | For Hobbes (but not for Kant) a person's actions can be deduced from their desires and beliefs [Chisholm] |
9268 | If free will miraculously interrupts causation, animals might do that; why would we want to do it? [Frankfurt on Chisholm] |
3442 | Responsibility seems to conflict with events being either caused or not caused [Chisholm] |
3443 | Desires may rule us, but are we responsible for our desires? [Chisholm] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
17528 | The dispositional account explains causation, as stimulation and manifestation of dispositions [Bird] |
3445 | Causation among objects relates either events or states [Chisholm] |
17526 | The counterfactual approach makes no distinction between cause and pre-condition [Bird] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |