Causal Closure of the Physical

2008 ◽  
pp. 582-583
Keyword(s):  
Causal Closure

scholarly journals The Causal Closure of Physics in Real World Contexts

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (10) ◽  
pp. 1057-1097
Author(s):  
George F. R. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Causal Closure

Causal Closure, Mechanism, and Rational Inference

2001 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 473-483
Author(s):  
Victor E. Reppert ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Closure Mechanism ◽  
Causal Closure ◽  
Rational Inference

scholarly journals Interventionism and Epiphenomenalism

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Baumgartner
Keyword(s):  
Causal Exclusion ◽  
Master Argument ◽  
Causal Influence ◽  
Causal Overdetermination ◽  
Exclusion Argument ◽  
Causal Closure

One of the central objectives Shapiro and Sober pursue in (2007) is to show that what they call the master argument for epiphenomenalism, which is a type of causal exclusion argument, fails. Epiphe nomenalism, according to the terminology adopted in (Shapiro and Sober 2007), designates the thesis that supervening macro properties (or variables or factors) have no causal influence on micro proper ties that are caused by the micro supervenience bases of those macro properties. Well-known classical exclusion arguments are designed to yield such macro-tomicro epiphenomenalism along the lines of the following reasoning: subject to the widely accepted principle of the causal closure of the physical, there exists a causally sufficient micro cause for every micro effect; if it is additionally assumed that macro properties supervene on micro properties without being identical (or reducible) to the latter and if — in light of the rareness of cases of causal overdetermination — micro effects are assumed not to be systematically overdetermined, it follows that macro properties are causally inert with respect to effects of their micro supervenience bases.

The Causal Closure of Physics: An Explanation and Critique

World Futures ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 179-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kile Jones
Keyword(s):  
Causal Closure
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