What Laws? Which Past?: Meillassoux’s Hyper-Chaos and the Epistemological Limitations of Retro-Causation

Laws and causation

Chaos, causation, and describing dynamics

Causal Laws and Singular Causation

In this paper it will be argued that causal laws describe the actions of causal powers. The process which results from such an action is one which belongs to a natural kind, the essence of which is that it is a display of this causal power. Therefore, if anything has a given causal power necessarily, it must be naturally disposed to act in the manner prescribed by the causal law describing the ...

Causation and Laws of Nature: Reductionism

Starting with causation, the intended notion is perhaps best introduced by examples. Causation is present when one billiard ball strikes another (which Hume called ‘a perfect instance’ of causation), when a person lifts a suitcase, and when a spring uncoils. To a first approximation, one might test for causation by testing for counterfactual dependence: if the cause had not occurred, then the e...

What is the political and epistemological significance of racialisation in medicine? What are the social processes by which racialisation occurs?

modern audiences, again making it a bit more digestible at the level of undergraduates and general interest readers, although more seasoned Harvey scholars might also appreciate the added clarity, or where there is confusion, he has left the original Latin. For example, making reference to the 1928 translation by Chauncey Leake, Carty identifies confusion over the vena arteriosa and arteriae ve...