Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Institute of Philosophy
- Code
- BMI-LOTD17-105E
- Title
- Contemporary metaphysics
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- Title of course: Causality What does causation consist in, and, depending on the possible answers, what are the basic characteristics of a causal relationship? -- this is the main topic of the lecture course. We shall also discuss the most important contexts of causality: the relationship of causality to concepts of explanation, law-like regularity, statistical correlation, time, modality, and logical inference. Our considerations will be based on the analysis of the causal narratives in our scientific, first of all, physical theories; rather than our every day experiences or common sense intuition. The lecture slides will be available in a pdf file. Further suggested readings: E. Szabó László: A nyitott jövő problémája - véletlen, kauzalitás és determinizmus a fizikában, Typotex Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 2002. (A könyv javított digitális kiadása PDF formában letölthető innen.) Causation, Oxford Readings in Philosophy, E. Sosa and M. Tooley, eds., Oxford University Press (1997) Belnap, N. (1992): Branching space-time, Synthese 92, 385. H. Reichenbach: The philosophy of space and time, Dover Publications, New York, 1958. G. Hofer-Szabó, M. Rédei, L. E. Szabó: The Principle of the Common Cause, Cambridge University Press, 2013. The Einstein--Podolsky--Rosen Argument and the Bell Inequalities, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2008)
- Course content
- Bibliography