Weinberger, Naftali and Williams, Porter and Woodward, James (2023) The Worldly Infrastructure of Causation. [Preprint]
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This paper describes an alternative to currently dominant philosophical approaches to the metaphysics of causation. It is motivated by the gap that currently exists between metaphysical accounts and recent epistemological research on causal reasoning and methods for discovering causal relationships. Our approach aims at characterizing structural features of the actual world that support, and are exploited by, successful strategies for causal reasoning and discovery. We call these features the “worldly infrastructure” of causation. We identify several elements of this worldly infrastructure, sketch an account of their physical bases, and explain how they contribute to the possibility of successful causal reasoning.
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Keywords: | Causation; Scientific Methodology; Metaphysics; | ||||||||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Causation General Issues > Experimentation General Issues > Models and Idealization Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics |
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Depositing User: | Mr. Naftali Weinberger | ||||||||||||
Date Deposited: | 31 Mar 2024 05:27 | ||||||||||||
Last Modified: | 31 Mar 2024 05:27 | ||||||||||||
Item ID: | 23245 | ||||||||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Causation General Issues > Experimentation General Issues > Models and Idealization Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics |
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Date: | 2023 | ||||||||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/23245 |
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