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Intrinsic Causation in Humean Supervenience
Author(s) -
Kodaj Daniel
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
ratio
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-9329
pISSN - 0034-0006
DOI - 10.1111/rati.12064
Subject(s) - supervenience , causation , causality (physics) , epistemology , philosophy , metaphysics , relation (database) , event (particle physics) , computer science , physics , quantum mechanics , database
The paper investigates whether causation is extrinsic in Humean Supervenience ( HS ) in the sense that being caused by is an intrinsic relation between token causes and effects. The underlying goal is to test whether causality is extrinsic for Humeans and intrinsic for anti‐Humeans in this sense. I argue that causation is typically extrinsic in HS , but it is intrinsic to event pairs that collectively exhaust almost the whole of history.