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Materia i przyczynowość - konkrety czy uniwersalia?

Authors :
Michał Heller
Source :
Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, Vol 48, Pp 33-45 (2011)
Publication Year :
2011
Publisher :
Copernicus Center Press, 2011.

Abstract

Humean doctrine on causality is well known. Since all our knowledge comes from experience, we are able to know that “B follows A” (B propter A) but not that “B is caused by A” (B propter A). All the rest comes from our mental habits. If we limit ourselves only to sensual experience, nothing more can be claimed on causality. However, such a strategy is very far away from what is done in physics. We cannot forget about mathematical structures physics employs for modeling the world. And there are mathematical structures that model what is transparent for sensual perceptions but what is essential for causal interaction. This is also true as far as the Newtonian physics was concerned but to see this more sophisticated philosophy of physics is needed than that Hume had at his disposal. In contemporary physics, causal interactions, as modeled by mathematics, can be drastically different from our everyday imaginations. For instance, causally related events can be space-like separated.

Details

Language :
German, English, French, Polish
ISSN :
08678286 and 24510602
Volume :
48
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.3334a3afbc214a7d99c7a65b48c90a20
Document Type :
article