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Wed Nov 20, 2013 234 Moses Hall 6–8 PM |
Working Group in the History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science Matthias Frisch (University of Maryland, College Park) Causal Reasoning in Physics |
According to widely accepted neo-Russellian anti-causal arguments, causal reasoning can play no legitimate role in our established theories of physics. In this paper I examine several such arguments are flawed and argue that causal reasoning plays an important role in physics as well.