Norton, John D. (2008) Is There an Independent Principle of Causality in Physics? A Comment on Matthias Frisch, “Causal Reasoning in Physics.”. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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Matthias Frisch has argued that the requirement that electromagnetic dispersion processes are causal adds empirical content not found in electrodynamic theory. I urge that this attempt to reconstitute a local principle of causality in physics fails. An independent principle is not needed to recover the results of dispersion theory. The use of “causality conditions” prove to be either an exercise in relabeling an already presumed fact; or, if one seeks a broader, independently formulated grounding for the conditions, that grounding either fails or dissolves into vagueness and ambiguity, as has traditionally been the fate of candidate principles of causality.

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Norton, John D.
Additional Information:	For later versions, see http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton
Keywords:	causality causation dispersion scattering
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics General Issues > Causation Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles
Depositing User:	John Norton
Date Deposited:	23 Jan 2008
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2010 15:16
Item ID:	3832
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics General Issues > Causation Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles
Date:	2008
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/3832

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