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0000-0002-8085-3104
Current Organisations
University of Nottingham
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City University of Hong Kong
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Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 15-11-2018
DOI: 10.1007/S11229-018-01983-Z
Abstract: In this paper we offer a response to one argument in favour of Priority Monism, what Jonathan Schaffer calls the nomic argument for monism. We proceed in three stages. We begin by introducing Jonathan Schaffer’s Priority Monism and the nomic argument for that view. We then consider a response to the nomic argument that we presented in an earlier paper (Baron and Tallant in Philos Phenomenol Res 93:583–606, 2016). We show that this argument suffers from a flaw. We then go on to offer a different response to the nomic argument. The core idea is that the current laws of physics are not integrated in the manner that Schaffer requires to get the nomic argument for monism off the ground.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 27-11-2019
DOI: 10.1007/S11098-019-01374-1
Abstract: What distinguishes causation from grounding? One suggestion is that causation, but not grounding, occurs over time. Recently, however, counterex les to this simple temporal criterion have been offered. In this paper, we situate the temporal criterion within a broader framework that focuses on two aspects: locational overlapping in space and time and the presence of intermediaries in space and time. We consider, and reject, the idea that the difference between grounding and causation is that grounding can occur without intermediaries. We go on to use the fact that grounding and causation both involve intermediaries to develop a better temporal criterion for distinguishing causation from grounding. The criterion is this: when a cause and effect are spatially disjoint, there is always a chain of causal intermediaries between the cause and the effect that are extended in time. By contrast, when the grounds and the grounded are spatially disjoint, there is always a chain of grounding intermediaries, but the chain need not be extended in time, it can be purely spatial. The difference between grounding and causation, then, is that causation requires time for chaining in a way that grounding does not.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-09-2016
DOI: 10.1111/PHPR.12337
Publisher: ACM
Date: 03-12-2008
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 09-2009
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-09-2019
DOI: 10.1111/PHPR.12637
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 16-03-2016
DOI: 10.1111/PHPR.12270
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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