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Causality in Discrete Time Physics Derived from Maupertuis Reduced Action Principle

Entropy, 2021
Causality describes the process and consequences from an action: a cause has an effect. Causality is preserved in classical physics as well as in special and general theories of relativity.
Roland Riek, Atanu Chatterjee
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Simplifying Causality: A Brief Review of Philosophical Views and Definitions with Examples from Economics, Education, Engineering, Medicine, Policy, and Physics

She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics and Innovation, 2023
This short paper compiles the main concepts behind some philosophical views, definitions, and examples of causality. This collection spans the realms of the four commonly adopted approaches to causality: Hume’s regularity, counterfactual, manipulation ...
M.Z. Naser
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Quantum Physics and God’s Agency [PDF]

پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2022
The common understanding of Copenhagen interpretation of the uncertainty principle and indeterminism in quantum physics is that it is a negation of causal relationships.
Hamidreza Shakerin
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Between Physics and Metaphysics — on Determinism, Arrow of Time and Causality [PDF]

Философия и космология, 2020
Contemporary physics, with two Einstein’s theories (called “relativity” what can be interpreted erroneously) and with Heisenberg’s principle of indeterminacy (better: “lack of epistemic determinism”) are frequently interpreted as a removal of the ...
Grzegorz P. Karwasz
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Causal Analysis in Some Topics of Philosophy of Biology [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2021
Despite all the ontological doubts about causality, one of the most important pillars of any philosophical theory is the issue of causality, with which it must clarify its task theory. Philosophy of biology as a field of philosophical knowledge has taken
Mahmoud Mozhdeh khoshknodahani
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Is Causality a Necessary Tool for Understanding Our Universe, or Is It a Part of the Problem?

Entropy, 2021
In this paper, the concept of causality in physics is discussed. Causality is a necessary tool for the understanding of almost all physical phenomena.
Martin Tamm
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Twenty Years after Folk Physics for Apes: Researchers' Understanding of How Nonhumans Understand the World [PDF]

Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2020
Povinelli (2000) published a series of careful studies probing chimpanzees’ understanding of physical causality in the book, “Folk Physics for Apes: The Chimpanzee’s theory of how the world works.” The studies and Povinelli’s conclusions regarding ...
Jennifer Vonk
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What Does the Operator Algebra of Quantum Statistics Tell Us about the Objective Causes of Observable Effects?

Entropy, 2020
Quantum physics can only make statistical predictions about possible measurement outcomes, and these predictions originate from an operator algebra that is fundamentally different from the conventional definition of probability as a subjective lack of ...
Holger F. Hofmann
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Schopenhauer on space, time, causality and matter: a physical reexamination

Voluntas, 2019
According to Schopenhauer, Kant’s arguments about the transcendental ideality of space and time have implications for matter through the concept of causality and the principle of sufficient reason.
Shahen Hacyan
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Entropy Derived from Causality

Entropy, 2020
The second law of thermodynamics, with its positive change of entropy for a system not in equilibrium, defines an arrow of time. Interestingly, also, causality, which is the connection between a cause and an effect, requests a direction of time by ...
Roland Riek
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