Meta Ontology

jest opublikowany w roku

• 2009

ma metadane w formacie Bibtex

• @article{Cross2009-CROCIT,number = {5},journal = {Journal of Philosophy},title = {Causal Independence, the Identity of Indiscernibles, and the Essentiality of Origins},volume = {106},abstract = {In his well-known 1952 dialogue Max Black describes a counterexample to the Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles (PII). The counterexample is a world containing nothing but two purportedly indiscernible iron spheres. Reflecting on Black's example, Robert Adams uses the possibility of a world containing two almost indiscernible spheres to argue for the possibility of the indiscernible spheres world. One of Adams's almost indiscernible spheres has a small impurity, and, Adams writes, "Surely... the absence of the impurity would not make such a universe impossible." The appeal to "surely" constitutes a gap in Adams's argument. This paper bridges the gap with a premise that exploits the counterfactual conditional and the related notion of causal independence. The paper then argues that causal independence bears in a similar way on an issue Nathan Salmon raises concerning Kripke's argument for the Essentiality of Origins.},year = {2009},pages = {277--291},author = {Charles B. Cross}}@

ma tytuł

• Causal Independence, the Identity of Indiscernibles, and the Essentiality of Origins

ostatnia strona

• 291

pierwsza strona

• 277