scholarly journals No Bipartite-Nonlocal Causal Theory Can Explain Nature’s Correlations

2021 ◽  
Vol 127 (20) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xavier Coiteux-Roy ◽  
Elie Wolfe ◽  
Marc-Olivier Renou
Keyword(s):  
Causal Theory

Learning from Causal Failure

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rani Lill Anjum ◽  
Stephen Mumford
Keyword(s):  
Theory Development ◽  
Causal Theory ◽  
Negative Results ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Unexpected Findings

There is a diminishing return to repeated confirmations, since each new instance adds less to the case for a causal theory. In such a situation, experimental failure, unexpected findings, and negative results can be what make for the bigger theoretical breakthroughs. Such results should contribute to theory development and not, as Popper urged, their outright falsification. The failure can show where a theory is to be improved or refined: it is an opportunity for the growth or new knowledge in response to a discrepancy experience. Such a norm is reflected in the non-monotonic reasoning that is useful in thinking about causation.

Hume on Necessary Causal Connections

Philosophy ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 66 (258) ◽  
pp. 517-521
Author(s):  
Katherin A. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
David Hume ◽  
Causal Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cause And Effect ◽  
Causal Connections ◽  
Repeated Observation ◽  
The Mind

According to David Hume our idea of a necessary connection between what we call cause and effect is produced when repeated observation of the conjunction of two events determines the mind to consider one upon the appearance of the other. No matter how we interpret Hume's theory of causation this explanation of the genesis of the idea of necessity is fraught with difficulty. I hope to show, looking at the three major interpretations of Hume's causal theory, that his account is contradictory, plainly wrong, or (at best) inherently impossible to verify.

A one-dimensional causal theory of tachyons

1972 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. F. Antippa
Keyword(s):  
Causal Theory ◽  
One Dimensional
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