Criticisms on Causal Belief:Novel Interpretation with Pluralism and Evidences from Ecological Science
Causal belief remains a pivotal philosophical problem and a fundamental question in the field of science and philosophy of science.Drawing upon the Aristotelian framework of physical causality and its historical evolution,the conventional understanding of causal belief is characterized by a blend of the classical existentialism of mono-decision,the modern epistemology of probability and the contemporary methodology of falsificationism.However,a novel pluralistic interpretation insists that the causality with biological world is actually an open,dynamic and reversible structure,supported by evidences from studies of ecological science.In the aspect of existentialism,the interpretation emphasizes the existence of it with the diverse,bidirectional and multiple features.In the aspect of epistemology,it prioritizes scientific explanation of correlation,non-replication,partial causation and multi-orders,and does not completely accept probabilism.While in the aspect of methodology,it advocates a trans-disciplinary claim that'anything goes'with the basis on theory of possible world and the criticism on falsificationism.Therefore,a new causal matrix is proposed in this paper and it is possible to unify the causal beliefs between physical and biological worlds with the novel interpretation with pluralism.
causalitycausationphilosophy of ecologyAristotleprobabilityconstant conjunctiondeterminismpluralism
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