@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024}, author = {Inwagen,Peter van}, subject = {Causation}, note = {Lewis V 195 Individuation/redundant causation/Peter van Inwagen: thesis: an event that happens as a product of multiple causes could not have happened without being the product of these causes. The causes could not have caused any other event. Analogy to the individuation of objects and human beings by their causal origins. LewisVsInwagen: 1. This would ruin my analysis of analyzing causation in concepts of contrafactual dependency. (s) Any deviation would be a different event, not comparable and it would not be applicable to contrafactual conditionals). >Causation/Lewis. 2. It is prima facie implausible: I can legitimately make alternative hypotheses about how an event (or an object or a human being) has been caused. But by that, I am assuming that it was the same event! Or that one and the same event might have had different effects. (Even Inwagen himself assumes that.) Plan/LewisVsInwagen: a plan implies even more impossible: either my whole plans or hypotheses are hidden impossibilities, or they are not at all about a particular event. Redundant causation/Lewis: important argument: if these are two "different deaths", then there is no redundancy! >Effect, >Plan.}, note = { Inwagen I Peter van Inwagen Metaphysics Fourth Edition Lewis I David K. Lewis Die Identität von Körper und Geist Frankfurt 1989 Lewis I (a) David K. Lewis An Argument for the Identity Theory, in: Journal of Philosophy 63 (1966) In Die Identität von Körper und Geist, , Frankfurt/M. 1989 Lewis I (b) David K. Lewis Psychophysical and Theoretical Identifications, in: Australasian Journal of Philosophy 50 (1972) In Die Identität von Körper und Geist, , Frankfurt/M. 1989 Lewis I (c) David K. Lewis Mad Pain and Martian Pain, Readings in Philosophy of Psychology, Vol. 1, Ned Block (ed.) Harvard University Press, 1980 In Die Identität von Körper und Geist, , Frankfurt/M. 1989 Lewis II David K. Lewis "Languages and Language", in: K. Gunderson (Ed.), Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. VII, Language, Mind, and Knowledge, Minneapolis 1975, pp. 3-35 In Handlung, Kommunikation, Bedeutung, Georg Meggle, Frankfurt/M. 1979 Lewis IV David K. Lewis Philosophical Papers Bd I New York Oxford 1983 Lewis V David K. Lewis Philosophical Papers Bd II New York Oxford 1986 Lewis VI David K. Lewis Convention. A Philosophical Study, Cambridge/MA 1969 German Edition: Konventionen Berlin 1975 LewisCl Clarence Irving Lewis Collected Papers of Clarence Irving Lewis Stanford 1970 LewisCl I Clarence Irving Lewis Mind and the World Order: Outline of a Theory of Knowledge (Dover Books on Western Philosophy) 1991 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=782709} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=782709} }