Open AccessCausação e Física Clássica: existe possibilidade de conciliação?
Author(s) -
Túlio Roberto Xavier de Aguiar
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
principia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.176
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1808-1525
pISSN - 1414-4247
DOI - 10.5007/1808-1711.2012v16n3p353
Subject(s) - causality (physics) , philosophy , criticism , face (sociological concept) , epistemology , philosophy of science , foundation (evidence) , common cause and special cause , causation , physics , literature , mathematics , linguistics , quantum mechanics , law , art , political science , statistics
In this work, I analyze our concept of cause in the face of criticism of Bertrand Russell in his article “On the Notion of Cause”. For Russell, there is an estrangement between the notion of cause and mature science of physics. The word cause (and its correlates) would not be used in physics, thus eliminating the main justification of philosophy for his job—the foundation of science. Thus, the various causal notions and the principle of causality should be abandoned by philosophers as something outdated. The aim of this study is to assess the extent to which our notion of cause, with its asymmetric nature, can be explained by physics and investigate the question of the existence of causes in our world