Blanchard, Thomas and Murray, Dylan and Lombrozo, Tania (2022) Experiments on causal exclusion. Mind & Language, 37. pp. 1067-1089.
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Abstract
Intuitions play an important role in the debate on the
causal status of high-level properties. For instance, Kim
has claimed that his “exclusion argument” relies on
“a perfectly intuitive ... understanding of the causal
relation.” We report the results of three experiments
examining whether laypeople really have the relevant
intuitions. We find little support for Kim's view and the
principles on which it relies. Instead, we find that lay-
people are willing to count both a multiply realized
property and its realizers as causes, and regard the sys-
tematic overdetermination implied by this view as
unproblematic.
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Keywords: | causation, exclusion problem, experimental philosophy, multiple realization, proportionality | ||||||||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Causation General Issues > Explanation |
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Depositing User: | Thomas Blanchard | ||||||||||||
Date Deposited: | 03 Jun 2023 12:07 | ||||||||||||
Last Modified: | 03 Jun 2023 12:07 | ||||||||||||
Item ID: | 22152 | ||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Mind & Language | ||||||||||||
DOI or Unique Handle: | https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12343 | ||||||||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Causation General Issues > Explanation |
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Date: | 2022 | ||||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1067-1089 | ||||||||||||
Volume: | 37 | ||||||||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/22152 |
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