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Causal Closure, Causal Exclusion, and Supervenience Physicalism

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2014
AbstractThis article considers the recent defense of the supervenience approach to physicalism due to Jaegwon Kim. Kim argues that supervenience supports physical causal closure, and that causal closure supports physicalism – indeed, a kind of reductive physicalism – and thus that supervenience suffices for physicalism. After laying out Kim's argument,
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Abduction versus closure in causal theories

Artificial Intelligence, 1992
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Overdetermination and Causal Closure: A Defense of the Causal Argument for Physicalism

ProtoSociology, 2022
Among the arguments that have been proposed for physicalism, the “causal argument” is widely taken to be the most compelling. Justin Tiehen (2015) has raised an interesting objection to this argument that takes the form of a dilemma. Tiehen’s ultimate conclusion is that at best, the causal argument is circular and so its premises cannot provide support
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Questioning Causality, Climax, and Closure

Film Quarterly, 2013
This final column for Film Quarterly by Caetlin Benson-Allott interrogates the stakes of closure and similar narrative conventions through an examination of the films Europa Report (2013) and Gravity (2013).
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The Causal Closure of What? An Epistemological Critique of the Principle of Causal Closure

Philosophical Inquiries, 2013
The paper analyses the so-called causal-closure thesis: “Pick any physical event (...) and trace its causal ancestry or posterity as far as you would like; the principle of causal closure of the physical domain says that this will never take you outside the physical domain.
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Physical Causal Closure and Non-Coincidental Mental Causation

Philosophia, 2013
In his book Personal Agency, E. J. Lowe has argued that a dualist theory of mental causation is consistent with “a fairly strong principle of physical causal closure” and, moreover, that it “has the potential to strengthen our causal explanations of certain physical events.” If Lowe’s reasoning were sound, it would undermine the most common arguments ...
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The Causal Closure of Physics and Free Will

2012
AbstractThis article focuses on the thesis known as the causal closure (or causal completeness) of physics (CoP)—that all physical events can be fully explained by physical causes governed by the fundamental laws of physics. This thesis raises well-known questions central to free-will debates about the nature and possibility of the “mental causation ...
Robert C. Bishop, Harald Atmanspacher
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The Causal Closure of Physics: An Explanation and Critique

World Futures, 2008
Is the physical world causally closed? Can something immaterial have any causal role within physics? This article seeks to answer these questions by explaining the theory of Causal Closure. Causal Closure says that nothing immaterial can have any causal efficacy upon the material world.
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Ortho and Causal Closure Operations in Ordered Vector Spaces

Algebra universalis, 2008
On a non-trivial partially ordered real vector space V the orthogonality relation is defined by incomparability and $$\zeta(V, \bot)$$ is a complete lattice of double orthoclosed sets.
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The Causal Closure of the Physical and Naturalism

2009
Abstract Over the latter half of the last century English-speaking philosophy became increasingly committed to naturalistic doctrines. Much of this naturalistic turn can be attributed to the widespread acceptance of the thesis that the physical realm is causally closed. This article contains four sections.
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