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Dialogues on Causality and the Limits of Empiricism
Author(s) -
Brenner William H.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
philosophical investigations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.172
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1467-9205
pISSN - 0190-0536
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9205.00183
Subject(s) - causality (physics) , empiricism , epistemology , philosophy , similarity (geometry) , theory of relativity , computer science , theoretical physics , artificial intelligence , physics , quantum mechanics , image (mathematics)
This paper presents the main lines of reasoning in the Wittgenstein notes entitled ‘Cause and Effect: Intuitive Awareness,’ in the form of a series of dialogues between Wittgenstein, Russell, and a few other philosophical voices. Two of the dialogues relate to what, in Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics , Wittgenstein called ‘the similarity of my treatment with relativity theory.’