Elusive Causation
| Field | Value | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | Maslen, Cei | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2006-08-18 | |
| dc.date.available | 2006-08-18 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2006-07-19 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1074 | |
| dc.description | Contains one audio recording (mp3) and two sets of presentation notes/slides | en |
| dc.description.abstract | David Lewis claimed that knowledge is elusive. "That is how knowledge is elusive. Examine it, and straightway it vanishes..." He argued that epistemology robs us of our knowledge: "Maybe epistemology is the culprit. Maybe the extraordinary pastime robs us of our knowledge. Maybe we do know a lot in daily life; but maybe when we look hard at our knowledge it goes away." The aim of this paper is to answer the question: might causation be elusive in a similar sense to that in which knowledge has been claimed to be elusive? Might there be pastimes that rob us of causation too? I will argue for a contextual account of causation and present detailed mechanisms for fixing truth values from the context. | en |
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| dc.format.mimetype | audio/x-mpeg | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/vnd.ms-powerpoint | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Centre for Time, Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Origins III :: Intervention, Time and Physics | en |
| dc.rights | Other | |
| dc.rights.uri | http://www.usyd.edu.au/disclaimer.shtml | en |
| dc.subject | Time | en |
| dc.subject | Causation | en |
| dc.title | Elusive Causation | en |
| dc.type | Presentation | en |
| usyd.faculty | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Centre for Time |
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