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Humean World: a world without causality - phenomenally like our world. See also David K. Lewis, Humean supervenience, Humean mosaic._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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David Chalmers on Humean World - Dictionary of Arguments
I 75 Humean world/Chalmers: is a world which is phenomenologically indistinguishable from ours, but where there is no causality, is not excluded. This is the case because facts about causation are not logically supervening on physical facts. >Supervenience, >Possible worlds, >Facts, >Causation, >Causality. Processes could turn out to be cosmic coincidences. Beliefs about causality are not as imposed on us like beliefs about biology (as dependent on microphysical structures). >Beliefs._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Cha I D. Chalmers The Conscious Mind Oxford New York 1996 Cha II D. Chalmers Constructing the World Oxford 2014 |