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Causal Foundationalism, Physical Causation, and Difference-Making [PDF]
, 2013 An influential tradition in the philosophy of causation has it that all token causal facts are, or are reducible to, facts about difference-making. Challenges to this tradition have typically focused on pre-emption cases, in which a cause apparently ...
Glynn, Luke, Glynn, L
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Introduction to Special Issue on 'Actual Causation' [PDF]
, 2013 An actual cause of some token effect is itself a (distinct) token event (or fact, or state of affairs, …) that helped to bring about that effect. The notion of an actual cause is different from that of a potential cause – for example a pre-empted backup –
Baumgartner, Michael, Glynn, Luke
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Boyle’s Reductive Occasionalism
Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2019 Was Robert Boyle an occasionalist? And if so, what kind of occasionalist was he? These questions have long troubled commentators, as Boyle’s texts often seem to offer both endorsements of occasionalism and affirmations of bodies’ causal powers.
Daniel Layman
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From Neuroscience to Law: Bridging the Gap
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Since our moral and legal judgments are focused on our decisions and actions, one would expect information about the neural underpinnings of human decision-making and action-production to have a significant bearing on those judgments.
Tuomas K. Pernu +2 more
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A reverse counterfactual analysis of causation [PDF]
, 2010 Lewis’s counterfactual analysis of causation starts with the claim that c causes e if ~ C > ~ E, where c and e are events, C and E are the propositions that c and e respectively occur, ~ is negation and > is the counterfactual conditional. The purpose of
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Laws, Causation and Dynamics at Different Levels [PDF]
, 2011 I have two main aims. The first is general, and more philosophical (Section 2). The second is specific, and more closely related to physics (Sections 3 and 4).
Butterfield, Jeremy, Jeremy Butterfield
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Anticausatives are semantically reflexive in Norwegian, but not in English
Glossa, 2016 In this paper we will discuss cross-linguistic variation in semantic entailment patterns in causative alternations. Previous work has probed this issue with data from elicited semantic judgements on paired linguistic forms, often involving linguistic ...
Antonella Sorace +4 more
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The relevance of causation in robotics: A review, categorization, and analysis
Paladyn, 2021 In this article, we investigate the role of causal reasoning in robotics research. Inspired by a categorization of human causal cognition, we propose a categorization of robot causal cognition.
Hellström Thomas
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Научный диалог, 2018 The article is devoted to description of a number of phraseological units with the causal semantics. Units of the following semantic groups are analyzed: “To Make. To Force,” “To Subdue,” “To Harass.
O. V. Kolesnikova
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