Philosophy of Science, Vol. 66, Supplement. Proceedings of the 1998 Biennial Meetings of the Philosophy of Science Association. Part I: Contributed Papers (Sep., 1999), pp. S486-S501 (16 pages) In ...

Srećko Kovač, On causality as the fundamental concept of Gödel's philosophy, Synthese, Vol. 197, No. 4, Special Issue on Logical Perspectives on Science and Cognition – The Philosophy of Gerhard ...

THE first principle which philosophy might receive, as established by science, is the principle of causality, which, in spite of recent attacks by some physicists,still reigns supreme. In support of ...

"We are pattern seekers, believers in a coherent world, in which regularities appear not by accident but as a result of mechanical causality or of someone's intention." Daniel Kahneman's words ring ...

The ball rolls across the floor because it was kicked, just as Earth orbits the sun because it is tugged by gravity. The connection between cause and effect is fundamental to how we understand the ...

(This article was coauthored with Kathleen D. Vohs and first published in Dialogue, the newsletter for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, alongside a companion piece by John Bargh and ...

Spurred on by quantum experiments that scramble the ordering of causes and their effects, some physicists are figuring out how to abandon causality altogether. Alice and Bob, the stars of so many ...

You often hear the admonition “correlation does not imply causation.” But what exactly is causation? Unlike correlation, which has a specific mathematical meaning, causation is a slippery concept that ...