Organon F
Volume 26, February 2019, Issue 1, Pages 40–61
ISSN 2585-7150 (online) ISSN 1335-0668 (print)
Research Article | Special issue on Causality, Free Will, and Divine Action
The Principle of the Causal Openness of the Physical
Daniel von Wachter
The argument from causal closure for physicalism requires the principle that a physical event can only occur through being necessitated by antecedent physical events. This article proposes a view of the causal structure of the world that claims not only that an event need not be necessitated by antecedent events, but that an event cannot be necessitated by antecedent events. All events are open to counteraction. In order to spell out various kinds of counteraction I introduce the idea of ‘directedness.’
Causal closure; determinism; free will; miracles.
Author
Daniel von Wachter
Affiliation
International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of Liechtenstein
Address
International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of Liechtenstein, Fürst-Franz-Josef-Str. 19, FL-9493 Mauren, Liechtenstein
Received
16 July 2018
Accepted
3 December 2018
Published online
22 January 2019
Publishers
Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
APA
Wachter, D. von (2019). The Principle of the Causal Openness of the Physical. Organon F, 26(1), 40–61. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2019.26104
Chicago
Wachter, Daniel von. 2019. "The Principle of the Causal Openness of the Physical." Organon F 26 (1): 40–61. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2019.26104
Harvard
Wachter, D. von (2019). The Principle of the Causal Openness of the Physical. Organon F, 26(1), pp. 40–61. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2019.26104
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