From Roger Bacon to Wesley Salmon
This paper shows that in the English philosopher Roger Bacon (13th century) anticipated the distinction between causal process and pseudo-process, proposed by Wesley Salmon in order to defend an ontic conception of explanation, which in turn requires the presence of physical causal processes. In add...
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- Tipo de recurso:
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2014
- Institución:
- Universidad del Rosario
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio EdocUR - U. Rosario
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repository.urosario.edu.co:10336/23369
- Acceso en línea:
- https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/23369
- Palabra clave:
- Causal Process
Cause
Multiplication of species
Pseudo-process
Species
Transfer of marks
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- Abierto (Texto Completo)
| Summary: | This paper shows that in the English philosopher Roger Bacon (13th century) anticipated the distinction between causal process and pseudo-process, proposed by Wesley Salmon in order to defend an ontic conception of explanation, which in turn requires the presence of physical causal processes. In addition, the paper shows that Bacon had already awarded an important role to processes of causal transmission. |
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