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From Teleology to Backward Causation: How Do They Contribute to Our Understanding of the Nature of Concepts? [PDF]
Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of CultureThe paper analyses the traditional concept of teleology, as well as its modern descendant, the concept of function (as used in the context of so-called functional explanations), against the background of such notions as purposive action, concepts ...
Marcin Poręba
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Backward Causation: Harder Than It Looks [PDF]
Philosophy of Science, 2022 AbstractAccording to David Albert, there are certain situations where we can cause events that lie in our past. In response to a well-known objection that we never observe backward causation, he argues that there are good reasons why we can’t tell when it obtains.
Stradis, Athamos
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Establishing Backward Causation on Empirical Grounds [PDF]
Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 2019 We propose an analysis of backward causation in terms of interventionism that can avoid several problems typically associated with backward causation. Its main advantage over other accounts is that it allows for reducing the problematic task of supporting backward causal claims to the unproblematic task of finding evidence for several ordinary forward ...
Gebharter, Alexander +2 more
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A Probabilistic Analysis of Causation [PDF]
, 2009 The starting point in the development of probabilistic analyses of token causation has usually been the naive intuition that, in some relevant sense, a cause raises the probability of its effect.
Glynn, Luke, Luke Glynn, Glynn, L
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The Tendency Theory of Causation [PDF]
, 2003 I propose a non-Humean theory of causation with “tendencies” as causal connections. Not, however, as “necessary connexions”: causes are not sufficient, they do not necessitate their effects. The theory is designed to be, not an analysis of the concept of
Wachter, Daniel von
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Teleonomy as a problem of self-causation [PDF]
, 2023 A theoretical framework is provided to explore teleonomy as a problem of self-causation, distinct from upward, downward and reticulate causation.
Gontier, Nathalie
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, 2022 In our world we never observe an effect which is earlier than its cause. All of our experience is of future-directed (or perhaps simultaneous) causation. But many have thought that backwards causation is at least logically or metaphysically possible. Max Black (1956) famously argued against this thought.
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Common Causes and The Direction of Causation [PDF]
, 2005 Is the common cause principle merely one of a set of useful heuristics for discovering causal relations, or is it rather a piece of heavy duty metaphysics, capable of grounding the direction of causation itself?
Brad Weslake, Weslake, Brad
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D. Lewis. The Paradoxes of Time Travel / trans. from Engl. A. I. Manev [PDF]
Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"The article argues that time travel is metaphysical possible, and that so-called the paradoxes of time travel are oddities, not impossibilities. The defense of the possibility of time travel involves a commitment to (a) enduring things having temporal
A. I. Manev
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Entropy, 2021 Drawing from both enactivist and cognitivist perspectives on mind, I propose that explaining teleological phenomena may require reappraising both “Cartesian theaters” and mental homunculi in terms of embodied self-models (ESMs), understood as body maps ...
Adam Safron
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