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"This book critically examines the recent discussions of powers and powers-based accounts of causation. The author then develops an original view of powers-based causation that aims to be compatible with the theories and findings of natural science. Recently, there has been a dramatic revival of realist approaches to properties and causation, which focus on the relevance of Aristotelian metaphysics and the notion of powers for a scientifically informed view of causation. In this book, R.D. Ingthorsson argues that one central feature of powers-based accounts of causation is arguably incompatible with what is today recognized as fact in the sciences, notably that all interactions are thoroughly reciprocal. Ingthorsson's powerful particulars view of powers-based causation accommodates for the reciprocity of interactions. It also draws out the consequences of that view for issue of causal necessity and offers a way to understand the constitution and persistence of compound objects as causal phenomena. Furthermore, Ingthorsson argues that compound entities, so understood, are just as much processes as they are substances. A Powerful Particulars View of Causation will be of great interest to scholars and advanced students working in metaphysics, philosophy of science, and neo-Aristotelian philosophy, while also being accessible for a general audience"--
Causation. --- Causality --- Cause and effect --- Effect and cause --- Final cause --- Beginning --- God --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Teleology
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This is the first English translation of Causalite ́ et Lois de La Nature, and is an important contribution to the theory of causation. Max Kistler reconstructs a unified concept of causation that is general enough to adequately deal with both elementary physical processes, and the macroscopic level of phenomena we encounter in everyday life.This book will be of great interest to philosophers of science and metaphysics, and also to students and scholars of philosophy of mind where concepts of causation and law play a prominent role.
Causation. --- Philosophy of nature. --- Logic --- Natural law --- Nature --- Nature, Philosophy of --- Natural theology --- Causality --- Cause and effect --- Effect and cause --- Final cause --- Beginning --- God --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Teleology --- causal --- responsibility --- statements --- antecedent --- property --- relation --- eventive --- nomological --- statement --- theory
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Object-oriented ontology offers a startlingly fresh way to think about causality that takes into account developments in physics since 1900. Causality, argues, Object Oriented Ontology (OOO), is aesthetic. In this book, Timothy Morton explores what it means to say that a thing has come into being, that it is persisting, and that it has ended. Drawing from examples in physics, biology, ecology, art, literature and music, Morton demonstrates the counterintuitive yet elegant explanatory power of OOO for thinking causality.
Object (Philosophy) --- Ontology. --- Causation. --- Causality --- Cause and effect --- Effect and cause --- Final cause --- Beginning --- God --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Teleology --- Being --- Substance (Philosophy) --- ontology --- physics --- causality --- Aesthetics --- Immanuel Kant --- Timothy Morton
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Descartes a écrit le Monde ou Traité de la Lumière dont la deuxième partie s’intitule L’Homme, il n’a jamais écrit de « Traité de l’Homme ». L’unité structurelle du traité de 1633 s’opère par le schème de la flamme qui se rapporte aussi bien au premier élément — le Feu — qu’au cœur, organe de fermentation ou de feu sans lumière. Lire Descartes par le biais essentiel de la flamme et de la lumière, tel est le propos de cet ouvrage. La lumière est-elle mouvement, action ou inclination à se mouvoir ? L’hésitation cartésienne engendre un questionnement sur la force mouvante. Si le mouvement n’est qu’un mode du corps mû, d’où vient la force mouvante ? Quel est son support substantiel ? Et qu’appelle-t-on substance ? Le problème de la force mouvante redouble quand on le rapporte à l’interaction de l’esprit et du corps. L’esprit est-il la cause des mouvements dits volontaires du corps ? Le corps est-il la cause de ce que sent l’esprit ? Descartes répond que l’esprit est la cause déterminante et non efficiente des mouvements dits volontaires et que le corps donne occasion à l’esprit de sentir. Certains cartésiens vont plus loin : l’esprit n’est que la cause occasionnelle des mouvements volontaires et, réciproquement, le corps n’est que la cause occasionnelle de ce que sent l’esprit. Le corps et l’esprit ne sont que des occasions pour Dieu d’exercer sa puissance, cause totale et unique de tous les mouvements du corps et de toutes les impressions de l’esprit. L’objet de ce livre est de montrer que Descartes a provoqué, par certains écarts conceptuels, une véritable crise de la causalité et de la substance, manifeste dans l’occasionalisme mais dont on voit encore les traces dans l’Encyclopédie de Diderot et de d’Alembert.
Causation --- Substance (Philosophy) --- Philosophy, French --- Causalité --- Substance (Philosophie) --- Philosophie française --- Descartes, René, --- Causation. --- Causalité --- Philosophie française --- Descartes, René, --- Matter --- Metaphysics --- Ontology --- Reality --- Causality --- Cause and effect --- Effect and cause --- Final cause --- Beginning --- God --- Philosophy --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Teleology --- Descartes, Renatus --- Cartesius, Renatus --- Descartes, René --- Philosophy - 17th century.
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Since its introduction by Hans Reichenbach, many philosophers have claimed to refute the idea - known as the common cause principle - that any surprising correlation between any two factors that do not directly influence one another is due to some common cause. For example, falsity of the principle is frequently inferred from falsifiability of Bell's inequalities. The author demonstrates, however, that the situation is not so straightforward. There is more than one version of the principle formulated with the use of different variants of Reichenbach-inspired notions; their falsity still remains an open question. The book traces different formulations of the principle and provides proofs of a few pertinent theorems, settling the relevant questions in various probability spaces. In exploring mathematical and philosophical issues surrounding the principle, the book offers both philosophical insight and mathematical rigor.
Causation --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Sciences - General --- Causality --- Cause and effect --- Effect and cause --- Final cause --- Beginning --- God --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Teleology --- Reichenbach, Hans, --- Raixenbaxi, Hans, --- Raĭkhenbakh, G., --- Causation. --- Philosophy (General). --- Probabilities. Mathematical statistics. --- PHILOSOPHY / General. --- Common Cause Principle, Reichenbach, Probability, Causality.
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A new approach for defining causality and such related notions as degree of responsibility, degrees of blame, and causal explanation.
Functional analysis --- Probabilities --- Causation --- modellering --- anal --- Causality --- Cause and effect --- Effect and cause --- Final cause --- Beginning --- God --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Teleology --- Probability --- Statistical inference --- Combinations --- Mathematics --- Chance --- Least squares --- Mathematical statistics --- Risk --- Functional calculus --- Calculus of variations --- Functional equations --- Integral equations --- (zie ook: modelvorming) --- Mathematical logic --- Philosophy of science --- Mathematical analysis --- Causation. --- Probabilities. --- Functional analysis. --- PHILOSOPHY/General --- COMPUTER SCIENCE/Artificial Intelligence
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Neuroscientists often consider free will to be an illusion. Contrary to this hypothesis, the contributions to this volume show that recent developments in neuroscience can also support the existence of free will. Firstly, the possibility of intentional consciousness is studied. Secondly, Libet’s experiments are discussed from this new perspective. Thirdly, the relationship between free will, causality and language is analyzed. This approach suggests that language grants the human brain a possibility to articulate a meaningful personal life. Therefore, human beings can escape strict biological determinism.
Free will and determinism. --- Causation. --- Neurosciences. --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system --- Causality --- Cause and effect --- Effect and cause --- Final cause --- Beginning --- God --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Teleology --- Compatibilism --- Determinism and free will --- Determinism and indeterminism --- Free agency --- Freedom and determinism --- Freedom of the will --- Indeterminism --- Liberty of the will --- Determinism (Philosophy) --- Philosophy of mind
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The Crisis of Causality deals with the reaction of the Dutch Calvinist theologian Gisbertus Voetius (1589-1676) to the New Philosophy of René Descartes (1596-1650). Voetius not only criticised the Cartesian idea of a mechanical Universe; he also foresaw that shifting conceptions of natural causality would make it impossible for theologians to explain the relationship between God and Creation in philosophical terms. This threatened the status of theology as a scientific discipline. Apart from a detailed analysis of the Scholastic and Cartesian notions of causality, the book offers new perspectives on related subjects, such as seventeenth-century university training and the Cartesian method of science. It will be of great importance to any student of seventeenth-century intellectual history, philosophy, theology and history of science.
Causation --- God --- Philosophy of nature --- Change --- Vitalism --- Mechanism (Philosophy) --- History --- History of doctrines --- Voet, Gijsbert, --- Descartes, René, --- -Change --- -God --- -Mechanism (Philosophy) --- -Philosophy of nature --- -Vitalism --- -#GROL:SEMI-1-05'16' Desc --- #GROL:SEMI-111.7 --- Biology --- Life (Biology) --- Nature --- Nature, Philosophy of --- Natural theology --- Mechanistic philosophy --- Philosophy, Mechanistic --- Materialism --- Naturalism --- Philosophy --- Science --- Metaphysics --- Misotheism --- Monotheism --- Religion --- Theism --- Catastrophical, The --- Ontology --- Causality --- Cause and effect --- Effect and cause --- Final cause --- Beginning --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Teleology --- -History --- -History of doctrines --- -Philosophy --- Descartes, Rene --- Voetius, Gisbertus --- Voetius, Gisbertus, --- -Descartes, Rene --- Voet, Gijsbert --- #GROL:SEMI-1-05'16' Desc --- Descartes, René, --- Descartes, Renatus --- Cartesius, Renatus --- Descartes, René --- Voet, Gijsbert, - 1589-1676 --- Descartes, René, - 1596-1650
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Causation --- Causation. --- Causality --- Cause and effect --- Effect and cause --- Final cause --- Beginning --- God --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Teleology --- Statistics as Topic --- Causality. --- Statistics as Topic. --- Area Analysis --- Estimation Technics --- Estimation Techniques --- Indirect Estimation Technics --- Indirect Estimation Techniques --- Multiple Classification Analysis --- Service Statistics --- Statistical Study --- Statistics, Service --- Tables and Charts as Topic --- Analyses, Area --- Analyses, Multiple Classification --- Area Analyses --- Classification Analyses, Multiple --- Classification Analysis, Multiple --- Estimation Technic, Indirect --- Estimation Technics, Indirect --- Estimation Technique --- Estimation Technique, Indirect --- Estimation Techniques, Indirect --- Indirect Estimation Technic --- Indirect Estimation Technique --- Multiple Classification Analyses --- Statistical Studies --- Studies, Statistical --- Study, Statistical --- Technic, Indirect Estimation --- Technics, Estimation --- Technics, Indirect Estimation --- Technique, Estimation --- Technique, Indirect Estimation --- Techniques, Estimation --- Techniques, Indirect Estimation --- Enabling Factors --- Multifactorial Causality --- Multiple Causation --- Predisposing Factors --- Reinforcing Factors --- Causalities --- Causalities, Multifactorial --- Causality, Multifactorial --- Causation, Multiple --- Causations --- Causations, Multiple --- Enabling Factor --- Factor, Enabling --- Factor, Predisposing --- Factor, Reinforcing --- Factors, Enabling --- Factors, Predisposing --- Factors, Reinforcing --- Multifactorial Causalities --- Multiple Causations --- Predisposing Factor --- Reinforcing Factor --- Mediation Analysis --- research design --- causal model --- target parameter specification --- identifiability --- statistical estimation --- sensitivity analysis
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