Cartwright, N. (2018) 'Big systems versus stocky tangles: it can matter to the details.', Erkenntnis., 83 (1). pp. 3-19.
Abstract
Wolfgang Spohn’s Frege prize lecture, like the work on which it is based, is a tour de force of rich, elegant, coherent argument about how the projected world that we experience is constructed. But we do not live in this projected world nor reason about it. The things Spohn constructs are there from the start—or so my Stanford School pragmatism teaches. This paper explores a deep difference in philosophical approaches—Spohn’s elegant proofs versus the stocky, tangled arguments I advocate—and illustrates how these play out in far more detailed disputes about the nature of causality and causal inference.
Item Type: | Article |
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Full text: | (VoR) Version of Record Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution. Download PDF (Advance online version) (415Kb) |
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Status: | Peer-reviewed |
Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-016-9869-8 |
Publisher statement: | © The Author(s) 2017. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
Date accepted: | 18 December 2016 |
Date deposited: | 25 January 2017 |
Date of first online publication: | 19 January 2017 |
Date first made open access: | 25 January 2017 |
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