Pub Date : 2018-07-25DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-21908-6_8
Peter J. Lewis
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Pub Date : 2018-07-19DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198779636.003.0003
R. Anjum, S. Mumford
Since the advent of modern philosophy, causation has been treated as a relation between two separate events. Any worldly dynamism is then provided by the succession of essentially static events. Recent decades have seen a revival of interest in powers, but this has been hampered by an acceptance of many of the presuppositions of modern philosophy, most conspicuously those of Hume. Simply placing powers on top of the static Humean framework will not do. Causal dispositionalism offers a more dynamic notion, where an instance of causation involves a unified process rather than a relation between distinct events. This theory has a number of advantages. It can account for change as well as stability, long- and short-lived processes, genuine complexity and real emergence, non-linear interaction of causes, extreme context-sensitivity, and contrary powers. This is a more plausible framework for understanding causation in biology, ontologically and epistemically.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-05DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-15655-8_7
Ulrik Buchholtz
{"title":"Higher Structures in Homotopy Type Theory","authors":"Ulrik Buchholtz","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-15655-8_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15655-8_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326049,"journal":{"name":"Synthese Library","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129891247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-04-09DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-15659-6_5
H. Brown
{"title":"The Reality of the Wavefunction: Old Arguments and New","authors":"H. Brown","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-15659-6_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15659-6_5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326049,"journal":{"name":"Synthese Library","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114674203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Milgram’s experiments have exposed the bitter truth that, against their moral standards, the great majority of subjects actually obeyed malevolent authorities and are ready to cause great suffering, even death, to innocent victims. The reason for such unexpected and shocking behavior can be clearly explained in the light of panenmentalist philosophy, according to which individual pure possibilities and their relations are as real as actualities and, normally, persons are free to choose between alternative pure possibilities in whatsoever circumstances. Nevertheless, whenever persons ignore the singular individuality of other people, such persons can cause most evil, entirely immoral deeds, to the others simply because impersonal authorities order them to do so. Hence, panenmentalism reveals the philosophical conditions because of which obedience or defiance to malevolent authority is possible.
{"title":"Stanley Milgram’s Experiments and the Saving of the Possibility of Disobedience","authors":"A. Gilead","doi":"10.3844/JSSP.2016.88.98","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3844/JSSP.2016.88.98","url":null,"abstract":"Milgram’s experiments have exposed the bitter truth that, against their moral standards, the great majority of subjects actually obeyed malevolent authorities and are ready to cause great suffering, even death, to innocent victims. The reason for such unexpected and shocking behavior can be clearly explained in the light of panenmentalist philosophy, according to which individual pure possibilities and their relations are as real as actualities and, normally, persons are free to choose between alternative pure possibilities in whatsoever circumstances. Nevertheless, whenever persons ignore the singular individuality of other people, such persons can cause most evil, entirely immoral deeds, to the others simply because impersonal authorities order them to do so. Hence, panenmentalism reveals the philosophical conditions because of which obedience or defiance to malevolent authority is possible.","PeriodicalId":326049,"journal":{"name":"Synthese Library","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128702126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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