Name: Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality Russell's Republic Revisited (en Inglés)
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Author: Huw; Price; Richard Corry
ISBN: 9780199278190

portada Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality Russell's Republic Revisited (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Oup Oxford

Autor

Huw; Price; Richard Corry

Año

2007

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

368

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

1.40

ISBN

0199278199

ISBN13

9780199278190

N° edición

Categorías

Metafísica y ontología

Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality Russell's Republic Revisited (en Inglés)

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In philosophy as in ordinary life, cause and effect are twin pillars on which much of our thought seems based. But almost a century ago, Bertrand Russell declared that modern physics leaves these pillars without foundations. Russell's revolutionary conclusion was that 'the law of causality is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm'. Russell's famous challenge remains unanswered. Despite dramatic advances in physics, the intervening century has taken us no closer to an explanation of how to find a place for causation in a world of the kind that physics reveals. In particular, we still have no satisfactory account of the directionality of causation - the difference between cause and effect, and the fact that causes typically precede their effects. In this important collection of new essays, 13 leading scholars revisit Russell's revolution, in search of reconciliation. The connecting theme in these essays is that to reconcile causation with physics, we need to put ourselves in the picture: we need to think about why creatures in our situation should present their world in causal terms.