Matthew Rellihan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5995348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Rellihan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Rellihan |
| SIGNATURE | RELLIHAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Seattle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4166-3727 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Causes, Counterfactuals, and Counterfactual History
I argue that there are three different sorts of counterfactuals involved in causal investigation and counterfactual history and that these counterfactuals range from the relatively unproblematic to the hopelessly speculative. This threefold distinction undermines a central argument in support of counterfactual history and supports the critics’ contention that counterfactual history involves speculative leaps not found in ordinary historical inves…
Functionalism, interventionism, and higher-order causation
On ChatGPT and the Forces and Relations of Production
ChatGPT and artificial intelligence more generally are transformative technologies capable of liberating humanity from the necessity of burdensome toil. Recent discussions have neglected this possibility because they suffer from the sorts of cognitive distortions catalogued by Marx and the Marxist tradition. Technology fetishism, understood on the model of commodity fetishism, occurs when the use and development allowed by a certain mode of produ…
Strengthening the exclusion argument
Strengthening the exclusion argument
On ChatGPT and the Forces and Relations of Production
ChatGPT and artificial intelligence more generally are transformative technologies capable of liberating humanity from the necessity of burdensome toil. Recent discussions have neglected this possibility because they suffer from the sorts of cognitive distortions catalogued by Marx and the Marxist tradition. Technology fetishism, understood on the model of commodity fetishism, occurs when the use and development allowed by a certain mode of produ…
Functionalism, interventionism, and higher-order causation
Causes, Counterfactuals, and Counterfactual History
I argue that there are three different sorts of counterfactuals involved in causal investigation and counterfactual history and that these counterfactuals range from the relatively unproblematic to the hopelessly speculative. This threefold distinction undermines a central argument in support of counterfactual history and supports the critics’ contention that counterfactual history involves speculative leaps not found in ordinary historical inves…
Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Causation (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Functionalism (philosophy of mind) (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Metaphysics (2 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (2 works) · Philosophy of language (2 works) · Philosophy of mind (2 works)