Casuality and determinism: tension, or outright conflict?

• Autores: Carl Hoefer
• Localización: Revista de filosofía, ISSN-e 1988-284X, ISSN 0034-8244, Nº 29, 2, 2004, págs. 99-115
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In the philosophical tradition, the notions of determinism and causality are strongly linked: it is assumed that in a world of deterministic laws, causality may be said to reign supreme; and in any world where the causality is strong enough, determinism must hold. 1 will show that these alleged linkages are based on mistakes, and in fact get things almost completely wrong. In a deterministic world that is anything like ours, there is no room for genuine causation. Though there may be stable enough macro-level regularities to serve the purposes of human agents, the sense of "causality" that can be maintained is one that will at best satisfy Humeans and pragmatists, not causal fundamentalists.