Physics and the Human Face of Causation.
Many contemporary philosophers of physics (and philosophers of science more generally) follow Bertrand Russell in arguing that there is no room for causal notions in physics. Causation, as James Woodward has put it, has a 'human face', which makes causal notions sit ill with fundamental theories of...
| Publicado en: | Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 407 - 420 |
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