CAUSES, CAUSITY, AND ENERGY
CAUSES, CAUSITY, AND ENERGY
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1475-4975.1984.tb00050.x
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发表时间：
1984-01-01
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CASTANEDA, HN
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CASTANEDA, HN
正如大卫休谟明智地强调的那样，我们通常的因果关系概念是这样的：一个事件或变化产生另一个事件或变化。这种生产是因果关系的核心，休谟把它的客观成分分析为恒定的连接。众所周知，休谟强调我们的产生或因果关系概念具有主观成分，即因果关系中某种必然性的幻想。典型地，对休谟的批判集中在他对必然性的攻击和他关于必然性的论点上。但是，生产的核心思想一般被排除在辩证法的舞台之外。在这里，我将把必要性放在一边，把生产的概念带到舞台的中心。我打算探索生产的最一般的逻辑和本体论特征。最吸引人的特点是生产与能源之间的深刻联系。但是，从下面的讨论中可以明显看出，这种深层联系是由一个更普遍的世界秩序概念所介导的，我将怀疑这一概念的因果关系，因此，这里所阐述的一般原理属于热力学的哲学基础。
Our ordinary concept of causality is—as David Hume wisely underscored—the concept in which an event or changeproducesanother event or change. This production is the central core of causation, and the objective component of it Hume analyzed as constant conjunction. As is well known, Hume emphasized that our notion of production or causation has a subjective component, namely, the illusion of a certain necessity in the connection between cause and effect. Typically, the critique of Hume has centered on his attack upon, and on his theses about, necessity. But the core idea of production has been generally kept out of the dialectical stage. Here I will put necessity aside and bring this very idea ofproductionto the center of the stage. I propose to explore the most general logical and ontological features of production. The most intriguing feature is the deep connection between production and energy. But as it will become apparent from the ensuing discussion, that deep connection is mediated by a more general concept of world‐orderliness that I shall dubcausity.Thus, the general principles here formulated belong to the philosophical foundations of thermodynamics.