Thesis Chapters by Caio Cézar Silva
Em Defesa do Necessitarismo Causal, 2023
O necessitarismo causal é a tese segundo a qual causas necessitam seus efeitos, sendo geralmente ... more O necessitarismo causal é a tese segundo a qual causas necessitam seus efeitos, sendo geralmente tomada como um dos postulados básicos do realismo causal. Já de algum tempo, objeções têm sido endereçadas ao necessitarismo causal por autores que, embora simpáticos ao realismo causal, enxergam o necessitarismo causal como problemático. A presente dissertação tem por objetivo defender o necessitarismo causal dessas objeções.
Papers by Caio Cézar Silva
Metafísica Analítica, 2024
After decades of attempts to conceptually reduce metaphysics and an increasingly optimistic attit... more After decades of attempts to conceptually reduce metaphysics and an increasingly optimistic attitude towards it, causal realism has begun to attract the interest of the philosophical community. Causal realism consists of the metaphysical thesis that causal relations are legitimate and real entities in our world, one of the metaphysical building blocks that undergird our reality, such that this relation cannot be reduced to other non-causal relations. Although literature is not clear on which theses constitute the basic core of causal realism, the following characteristics are generally associated with it: productivity (or efficacy) and necessity. Productivity conveys the idea that causality is a genuine relation of our reality where causes bring about their effects into existence, and this productive relation from cause to effect must be explained. To this end, the causal realist appeals to properties endowed with this productive power capable of driving causality. Necessity, in turn, is what ensures that a certain arrangement of causes necessarily produces its effects, and it is precisely around this concept that necessitarians and anti-necessitarians diverge. On one side, the causal necessitarianist maintains that one of the distinctive characteristics of causality as a metaphysical relation is the necessity it There's no difference between causation or causality. However, some authors such as Peirce employ distinct uses for each of these words (see Hulswit 2002: xiv).
Metaphysica
In this paper I object some of the criticisms Wahlberg (2017. “Meso-Level Objects, Powers, and Si... more In this paper I object some of the criticisms Wahlberg (2017. “Meso-Level Objects, Powers, and Simultaneous Causation.” Metaphysica 18 (1): 107–25) wages against Mumford and Anjum's (2011. Getting Causes from Powers . Oxford: Oxford University Press) account of simultaneous causation. A brief outlook on Wahlberg’s argument in favour of sequential causation is introduced. A first objection is presented and it is shown that sequential causation cannot deal with one of Mumford and Anjum’s argument: the possibility of prevention. When sequential and simultaneous causation are put side by side and how the causal process in each of them interact with a subtractive preventer is analysed, sequential causation becomes visibly flawed while simultaneous causation accommodates the prevention. Then, a second objection argues that the solution Wahlberg puts forward is defective and the time intervals marking the beginning of the cause or effect merely change where the problem appears. Finally, I retort a series of concerns Wahlberg stresses about the structure of simultaneous causation: temporal directedness, causal configuration and non-negligible change and time.
Metafísica Analítica, 2024
Capítulo da coletânea de trabalhos do GT de Metafísica Analítica do XIX Encontro da ANPOF.
Uploads
Thesis Chapters by Caio Cézar Silva
Papers by Caio Cézar Silva