Thing causation

Noûs Pub Date : 2024-03-21 DOI:10.1111/nous.12494
Nathaniel Baron‐Schmitt
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According to orthodoxy, the most fundamental kind of causation involves one event causing another event. I argue against this event‐causal view. Instead, the most fundamental kind of causation is thing causation, which involves a thing causing a thing to do something. Event causation is reducible to thing causation, but thing causation is not reducible to event causation, because event causation cannot accommodate cases of fine‐grained causation. I defend my view from objections, including C. D. Broad's influential “timing” argument, and I conclude with implications for agent‐causal theories of free will.
事物因果关系
根据正统观点,最基本的因果关系是一个事件引起另一个事件。我反对这种事件因果观点。相反,最基本的因果关系是事物因果关系,即一个事物导致一个事物做某事。事件因果关系可以还原为事物因果关系,但事物因果关系却不能还原为事件因果关系,因为事件因果关系无法容纳细粒度的因果关系。我将从反对意见中为我的观点辩护,其中包括布罗德(C. D. Broad)颇具影响力的 "时间 "论证。
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