Transference, or identity theories of causation?
ISSN: 0495-4548
Año de publicación: 2004
Volumen: 19
Número: 49
Páginas: 31-48
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: Theoria: an international journal for theory, history and foundations of science
Resumen
Transference theorists propose to explain causation in terms of the transference of a physical element. I argue, in two steps, that this it not possible. First, I show that available accounts of 'transference' ultimately convey that transference -and, consequently, causation- is the (non-relational) identity over time of the transferred element (a universal, a trope, or even an absolute substance). But, second, I try to defend, it is conceptually impossible that causation it (non-relational) identity.