On the Myth of Metaphysical Neutrality: Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize Lecture 2015†

Autor:	Ruth Groff
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	Philosophy 05 social sciences Metaphysics 06 humanities and the arts Mythology Possession (law) 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Outcome (game theory) Epistemology 060302 philosophy 0502 economics and business Neutrality Causation 050203 business & management
Zdroj:	Journal of Critical Realism. 15:409-418
ISSN:	1572-5138 1476-7430
DOI:	10.1080/14767430.2016.1190909
Popis:	In this lecture I argue that it is not possible for social scientists or others engaged in making causal claims about the world to be neutral with respect to the question of what causation is. One need not be in possession of a full-blown account, but one must know whether or not, in saying that something is the cause of a given outcome, one intends to say that it has actively produced or generated that outcome. Following Brian Ellis, I refer to accounts according to which the answer would be ‘No’ as ‘passivist’. One is free to be a passivist, but it is not possible to be neither a passivist nor an anti-passivist.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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