Causal Reasoning in Physics

ISBN: 9781316649657 出版年：2014 页码：266 Mathias Frisch Cambridge University Press

In this paper I examine several neo-Russellian arguments for the claim that there is no room for an asymmetric notion of cause in mature physical theories. I argue that these arguments are unsuccessful and discuss an example where an asymmetric causal condition plays an important role in the derivation of a physical law.