After Heil at SMG...here is second of the two Thursday events about
causation...
Best, Jeremy
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Jeremy Butterfield:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Butterfield
Homepage: http://trin-hosts.trin.cam.ac.uk/fellows/butterfield/
Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ
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Visit the journal, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 09:48:54 +0000
From: Richard Staley <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: HPS departmental seminar, 3:30 pm 5 Feb: Julian Reiss on Cause,
Causatives, and Theories of Causation
Julian Reiss (Durham University)
will speak at the History and Philosophy of Science Departmental Seminar
this Thursday, 5 February at 3:30pm (note our new starting time!)
on Cause, Causatives, and Theories of Causation
The aim of this paper is to draw attention to the difficulties the ubiquity of
causatives such as oxidise, transduce, dampen and prolong in scientific
language raise for truth-conditional theories of causation which have the form
C causes E if and only if
or a near variant. The difficulties are a
consequence of three features of the use of causatives in science: they are
ineliminable, they represent causal relations and processes of many different
metaphysical kinds, and they are polysemous. I argue that no truth-conditional
theory of causation can do justice to the use of causatives in scientific
language. I then sketch an alternative, inferentialist theory of causation and
finally show how it deals with causatives.
Tea and biscuits will be available from 3pm in Seminar Room 1
Seminar Location:
Seminar Room 2
Department of the History and Philosophy of Science
Free School Lane
Cambridge
CB2 3RH
Following the talk we will go to the pub, and on to dinner. All are welcome!
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Dr Richard Staley
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge
Free School Lane
Cambridge
CB2 3RH
United Kingdom
Tel: + 44 (0)1223 334555
Fax: + 44 (0)1223 334554
http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/
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