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Causal Overdetermination for Humeans? [PDF]

open access: yesMetaphysica, 2010
The paper argues against systematic overdetermination being an acceptable solution to the problem of mental causation within a Humean counterfactual theory of causation. The truth-makers of the counterfactuals in question include laws of nature, and there are laws that support physical to physical counterfactuals, but no laws in the same sense that ...
Michael Esfeld
exaly   +6 more sources

Metaphysical Overdetermination

open access: yesThe Philosophical Quarterly, 2022
It is widely recognized by proponents of the notion that grounding can be, indeed is, overdetermined. Moreover, it seems safe to suppose that something of a consensus has emerged: grounding is overdetermined and there is nothing about it that we ought ...
R. Bliss
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

What Causally Insensitive Events Tell Us About Overdetermination [PDF]

open access: yesPhilosophia (United States), 2014
Suppose that Billy and Suzy each throw a rock at window, and either rock is sufficient to shatter the window. While some consider this a paradigmatic case of causal overdetermination, in which multiple cases are sufficient for an outcome, others consider
Sara Bernstein
exaly   +5 more sources

The new challenge of preemption and overdetermination [PDF]

open access: yesSynthese
According to the popular counterfactual account of harm and benefit, something benefits (harms) someone just in case it leaves them better (worse) off than they would have been without it.
Aaron Thieme
semanticscholar   +4 more sources

On an inverse problem for a linearized system of Navier–Stokes equations with a final overdetermination condition

Journal of Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems, 2023
The theory of inverse problems is an actively studied area of modern differential equation theory. This paper studies the solvability of the inverse problem for a linearized system of Navier–Stokes equations in a cylindrical domain with a final ...
M. Jenaliyev   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Overdetermined Elliptic Systems

Foundations of Computational Mathematics, 2005
We consider linear overdetermined systems of partial differential equations. We show that the introduction of weights classically used for the definition of ellipticity is not necessary, as any system that is elliptic with respect to some weights becomes elliptic without weights during its completion to involution.
Katsiaryna Krupchyk   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

On overdetermination conditions in order determination inverse problems for fractional diffusion equations

Uzbek Mathematical Journal
The fractional diffusion equation in an infinite layer is considered, and an integral identity is proved that relates the solution of the Cauchy problem for the equation under consideration with entire harmonic functions.
A. Pskhu
semanticscholar   +1 more source

On an inverse problem with high-order overdetermination conditions

Journal of Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems
We study the problem of identifying the constant parameters involved in the right-hand sides of a linear non-autonomous system of differential equations with first-order ordinary derivatives.
V. Abdullayev
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Formalising Overdetermination in a Labelled Transition System

Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
In the Knowledge Representation and Reasoning field, causality has mainly been used to determine the effects of actions. However, in legal or ethical reasoning, causality is used to determine the causal origin of a consequence.
Camilo Sarmiento   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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