Physics and Causation

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ID4079740
AutoresTroy Blanchard (0000-0001-5002-7517, Illinois Wesleyan University, autor correspondente), Thomas Blanchard
Ano2016
Volume11
Fascículo5
Páginas256-266
Data de publicação2016-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPhilosophy Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/phc3.12319
OpenAlexW2401028568
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas45

More than a century ago, Russell launched a forceful attack on causation, arguing not only that modern physics has no need for causal notions but also that our belief in causation is a relic of a pre-scientific view of the world. He thereby initiated a debate about the relations between physics and causation that remains very much alive today. While virtually everybody nowadays rejects Russell's causal eliminativism, many philosophers (although by no means all) have been convinced by Russell that the fundamental physical structure of our world doesn't contain causal relations. This raises the question of how to reconcile the central role of causal concepts in the special sciences and in common sense with the putative absence of causation in fundamental physics

Causal reasoning · Causation · Epistemology · Metaphysics · Supervenience · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology · Quantum Mechanics and Applications