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Pragmatic causation
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Russell famously argued that causation should be dispensed with. He gave two explicit arguments for this conclusion, both of which can be defused if we loosen the ties between causation and determinism. I show that we can define a concept of causation which meets Russell's conditions but does not reduce to triviality. Unfortunately, a further serious problem is implicit beneath the details of Russell's arguments, which I call the causal exclusion problem. Meeting this problem invo...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Pages:
- 159–190
- Host title:
- Causation, physics, and the constitution of reality: Russell's republic revisited
- Publication date:
- 2007-01-01
- ISBN:
- 9780199278183
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- English
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- Deposit date:
- 2014-02-14
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- 2007
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