FOUNDATION AND CAUSALITY

• Autor(a) principal: Alvarado, José Tomás
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: Kriterion (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/kriterion/article/view/29070
• topic: Grounding; Causation; Dependence; Ontological priority; Fundación; Causalidad; Dependencia; Prioridad ontológica

Recent works have proposed a treatment of grounding “inthe image of causation”. There are important analogies between grounding andcausation: both seem to be ‘building’ relations, both seem to be strict orders,and both seem amenable to representation by models of structural equations(cf. Schaffer, 2016; Wilson, 2018). But it seems also that there are importantdifferences, because causation is usually considered as an external relation,while grounding is internal; there are cases of probabilistic causation, but thereis nothing like probabilistic grounding; grounding is taken to be a well-foundedrelation, but not causation; grounding entails ontological supervenience, butnot causation. It is argued here that most of those supposed differences aremotivated by a Humean conception of causation in which there are no necessaryconnections between cause and effect. A non-Humean view of causation, though,makes the unification of grounding and causation much more reasonable thatany separate treatment.