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Local Theories of Causation and the a Posteriori Identification of the Causal Relation
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“If energy and momentum are not conserved quantities, then conserved quantity theories of causation seem quite hopeless.”
From General Relativity, Mental Causation, and Energy Conservation (2022) · cites this paper as Rueger 1998
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“As various authors have noted, it is rather awkward or perhaps fatal for conserved quantity theories of causation that energy and momentum are no longer conserved quantities given the widespread anti-realism about conservation laws in light of General Relativity (Rueger 1998; Curiel 2000; Lam 2010; Vassallo 2020).”
From General Relativity, Mental Causation, and Energy Conservation (2022) · cites this paper as Rueger 1998
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Wesley Salmon's Process Theory of Causality and the Conserved Quantity Theory
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Schaffer, J. (2000) · Philosophy of Science · doi:10.1086/392776 · Cited by 290
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Metadata
- Authors
- Rueger, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Alberta (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Rueger, Alexander
- Venue
- Erkenntnis
- Published
- 1998-01
- Volume
- 48
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 27-40
- ISSN
- 0165-0106 (ISSN-L)
- 1572-8420
- OpenAlex
- W179610351
- Cited by
- 16
- References
- 22
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 2.62
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/text-and-data-mining (tdm)
- www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/text-and-data-mining (vor)
- Locations
- Erkenntnis (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Philosophy of Biology and Scientific Explanation
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Logic and Philosophy of Science
- Keywords
- salmon, counterfactual theory of causation, Lewis, physical processes, metaphysics of causation
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