A semeiotic account of causation: the "cement of the universe" from a Peircean perspective
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| Beschreibung: | Zsfassung in niederländ. Sprache. - Nijmegen, Kath. Univ., Diss., 1998 |
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Titel: A semeiotic account of causation
Autor: Hulswit, Menno
Jahr: 1998
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements vii
Note on références ix
Introduction xi
Chapter 1
CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO CAUSATION 1
I THE CONTEMPORARY DEBATE 1
1 Necessary and/or Sufficient Conditions 1
2 Causes and Counterfactual Dependency 8
3 The Instrumental Approach: Causes as means-to-ends 10
4 Probabilistic causation 12
5 The Singularist approach 13
II BASIC ISSUES IN THE CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO CAUSA- 18
TION
1 Five fundamental requirements 18
2 The relata ofthe causal relation 21
3 Further issues 24
III CONCLUSION 26
Chapter 2
SOME KEY MOMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF THE CONCEPT OF 29
CAUSE
I CAUSATION IN ANCIENT GREECE 30
1 Aristotle: four types of explanation 30
2 The Stoics: causation, exceptionless regularity, and necessiry 33
II CAUSATION IN THE MIDDLE AGES 35
1 Thomas Aquinas 35
III CAUSATION IN MODERN PHILOSOPHY 43
1 The metaphysical Systems from Descartes till Leibniz 44
2 Critical philosophy from Locke till Mill 55
IV CONCLUSION: IMPORTANT CHANGES IN THE MEANING OF CAUSE 69
Chapter 3
PEIRCE ON FINAL CAUSATION 75
I INTRODUCTION 75
II PEIRCE'S CONCEPTION OF FINAL CAUSATION 76
1 The nature of final causation 76
2 Final causation and efficient causation 79
3 Teleological and mechanistic processes; Peirce's rejection of dualism 81
4 Teleology and objective chance §3
5 Teleology as créative; developmental teleology 85
III A PEIRCEAN CRITIQUE OF ERNST MAYR'S THEORY OF TELEOLOGY 87
1 The goal of évolution 88
2 Mayr's dualism 90
3 Mayr's idea of a program as 'causally responsible' for teleological processes 92
IV CONCLUSION 94
Chapter 4
PEIRCE'S TELEOLOGICAL APPROACH TO NATURAL CLASSES 97
I NATURAL KINDS AND CAUSATION IN CONTEMPORARY 98
PHILOSOPHY
H SOME CONTEMPORARY INTERPRETATIONS OF PEIRCEAN 101
NATURAL KINDS
1 Susan Haack's Interprétation 1°1
2 Christopher Hookway's Interprétation 102
3 Sandra Rosenthal's Interprétation 103
III PEIRCE VERSUS MILL 103
1 Mill'stheory of naturalkinds 104
2 Naturel Kinds and the Unifonnity of Nature; Peirce's Earliest Discussion 105
of Natural Kinds
3 Peirce's Baldwin Définition ofKind 107
4 The PRE-character 108
IV KINDS AND CLASSES 109
V CLASSIFICATION ACCORDING TO FINAL CAUSES 112
VI CRITERIA OF DEMARCATION n6
VII RECAPITULATION : DEFINITION OF PEIRCEAN NATURAL CLASSES 119
VIIIWHY BELIEVE IN NATURAL CLASSES? 121
IX EXAMPLES OF NATURAL CLASSES 122
1 Examples from the Realm of Human Expérience: Social Classes, 122
the Sciences, and Artificial Objects
2 The Chemical Eléments i24
3 The Biological Species 126
X WAS PEIRCE A PLURALIST REGARDING NATURAL CLASSES? 127
XI CONCLUSION: NATURAL CLASSES AND CAUSATION 132
Chapter 5
A GUESS AT THE RIDDLE OF SEMEIOTIC CAUSATION °5
I SOME FUNDAMENTAL CONDITIONS OF SIGNS AS SUCH I35
1 Early Basic Insights 1
2 Later developments 1
II TX. SHORT I40
Dl JOSEPH RANSDELL 145
IV SOME PROBLEMS GENERATED BY SHORTS AND RANSDELL'S 148
VIEWS
V THE CAUSAL ROLE OF THE DYNAMIC OBJECT 149
1 Positive évidence 149
2 Négative évidence 151
VI ICON, INDEX, AND SYMBOL 154
VII THE MEANING OF 'DETERMINES' 161
VIII CONCLUSION 165
Chapter 6
SEMEIOTTC AND THE CEMENT OF THE UNIVERSE: A PEIRCEAN 169
APPROACH TO CAUSATION
I CRITICISM OF THE RECEIVED VIEW 169
1 Contemporary approaches to causation 169
2 Two mutually incompatible conceptions of cause 172
3 The inadequacy of the received view 173
4 Two mutually incompatible categoreal frameworks 178
5 Conclusion to part I: criticism of the received view 180
II NECESSARY CONDITIONS FOR A THEORY OF CAUSATION 182
in PEIRCE ON CAUSALITY AND CAUSATION 182
1 Peirce's critique of the principle ofcausality 183
2 Peirce's conception of causation 189
3 Causality and causation: facts versus events 191
4 Events and processes 194
5 Conclusion to part III: Causality and Causation 196
IV A SEMEIOTIC APPROACH TO CAUSATION 196
1 Some formai characteristicsof semeiosis 197
2 The problem of semeiotic causation 198
3 Semeiosis provides the formai structure of causation 199
4 A semeiotic approach to causation 201
VI CONCLUSION: A PEIRCEAN APPROACH TO CAUSATION 215
SUMMARY 219
Endnotes 225
Bïbliography 241
Samenvattmg (in Dutch) 251
Curriculum Vitae 259 |
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