Causality: Production and Propagation
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association
- Vol. 1980 (2) , 49-69
- https://doi.org/10.1086/psaprocbienmeetp.1980.2.192586
Abstract
A theory of causality based upon physical processes is developed. Causal processes are distinguished from pseudo-processes by means of a criterion of mark transmission. Causal interactions are characterized as those intersections of processes in which the intersecting processes are mutually modified in ways which persist beyond the point of intersection. Causal forks of three kinds (conjunctive, interactive, and perfect) are introduced to explicate the principle of the common cause. Causal forks account for the production of order and modifications of order; causal processes account for the propagation of causal influence.Keywords
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