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Empiricism and Philosophy of PhysicsCausation in Physics

Empiricism and Philosophy of Physics: Causation in Physics [The conclusion of this chapter is that there are no causal laws in physics. Physical laws relate quantities to each other, but do not say anything about cause and effect. Furthermore, neither forces nor causes are accepted in the ontology since ‘force’ and ‘cause’ are general terms. But physical theory is very often used in causal discourse. Often we use physical laws to connect events, in which case we label them ‘cause’ and ‘effect’. These terms come from our agent perspective; when we want to achieve a certain goal, we ask what to do, and that is the context in which we label these two events or states of affairs as ‘cause’ and ‘effect’.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Empiricism and Philosophy of PhysicsCausation in Physics

Part of the Synthese Library Book Series (volume 434)
Johansson, Lars-Göran
Empiricism and Philosophy of Physics — Jan 14, 2021
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
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978-3-030-64952-4
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119 –125
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10.1007/978-3-030-64953-1_8
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[The conclusion of this chapter is that there are no causal laws in physics. Physical laws relate quantities to each other, but do not say anything about cause and effect. Furthermore, neither forces nor causes are accepted in the ontology since ‘force’ and ‘cause’ are general terms. But physical theory is very often used in causal discourse. Often we use physical laws to connect events, in which case we label them ‘cause’ and ‘effect’. These terms come from our agent perspective; when we want to achieve a certain goal, we ask what to do, and that is the context in which we label these two events or states of affairs as ‘cause’ and ‘effect’.]

Published: Jan 14, 2021

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