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Causal Production as Interaction

Ingthorsson, R.D

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R.D Ingthorsson



Abstract

The paper contains a novel realist account of causal production and the necessary connection between cause and effect. I argue that the asymmetric relation between causally connected events must be regarded as a product of a symmetric interaction between two or more entities. All the entities involved contribute to the producing, and so count as parts of the cause, and they all suffer a change, and so count as parts of the effect. Cause and effect, on this account, are two different states of the very same compound substance, or system, one coming to exist out of the other.

Citation

Ingthorsson, R. (2002). Causal Production as Interaction. Metaphysica, 3(1), 87-119

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jan 1, 2002
Deposit Date Oct 7, 2009
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Metaphysica
Print ISSN 1437-2053
Electronic ISSN 1874-6373
Publisher De Gruyter
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 3
Issue 1
Pages 87-119
Keywords Causal production, Causal process, Necessary connection, Metaphysics.
Publisher URL http://www.metaphysica.de/issues-2002.htm

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