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The Cognitive Uses of Causal Order (2009)| shared_uid | 1093 |
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| title | The Cognitive Uses of Causal Order |
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| type | Séminaire |
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| year | 2009 |
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| start_date | 2010/05/04 |
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| stop_date | 2010/05/25 |
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| schedule | 14h30-16h30 |
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| active | no |
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| summary | What is the significance of our representation of the world as objectively
causally ordered ? One way to answer this question is to give a metaphysical
theory of causation - to say what it is for the world to be causally
ordered, independently of us. My method in this seminar is different : it is
to investigate the role of causal thinking in scientific inquiry, under two
headings :
1. What benefit do we gain from representing the world as a causal place
(lectures 1 & 2) ?
2. How is causation built into the very nature of scientific inquiry
(lectures 3 & 4) ? |
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| responsibles | Wolff |
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