Regularity Theories Reassessed
Regularity Theories Reassessed
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DOI：
10.1007/s11406-007-9114-4
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2008-09-01
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0.5
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Baumgartner, Michael
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作者：
Baumgartner, Michael
很长一段时间以来，因果关系的规律性解释实际上已经从舞台上消失了。在其他理论框架中遇到的问题最近促使作者致力于因果关系，自然法则或因果推理的方法论-如E。G.五月（Kausales Schliessen.）Eine Untersuchung uber kausale Erklarungen und Theorientbildung。博士Thesis，Universitat Hamburg，Hamburg，1999），Ragin（Fuzzy-set social science.芝加哥：芝加哥大学出版社，2000年），Grasshoff和May（因果关系。In W. Spohn，M. Ledwig，& M.埃斯菲尔德（编辑），因果关系的当前问题（pp. 85 - 114）。Paderborn：Mentis，2001），Swartz（The concept of physical law（2nd ed.）. http：//www.sfu.ca/philosophy/physical-law/，2003），Halpin（Erkenntnis，58，137 - 168，2003）-将他们的注意力引导回到规律性理论分析。鉴于最新的建议的规律性理论，本文手头因此重新评估的批评提出的规律性帐户以来的因果关系的麦基（水泥的宇宙。因果关系研究牛津：克拉伦登出版社，1974年）。它表明，大多数这些反对目标惊人的过于简化的规律性理论草图。通过概述反驳这些反对意见的方法，我们认为，普遍认为正则性理论的总体失败是草率的。
For a long time, regularity accounts of causation have virtually vanished from the scene. Problems encountered within other theoretical frameworks have recently induced authors working on causation, laws of nature, or methodologies of causal reasoning - as e. g. May (Kausales Schliessen. Eine Untersuchung uber kausale Erklarungen und Theorienbildung. Ph.D. thesis, Universitat Hamburg, Hamburg, 1999), Ragin (Fuzzy-set social science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), Grasshoff and May (Causal regularities. In W. Spohn, M. Ledwig, & M. Esfeld (Eds.), Current issues in causation (pp. 85 - 114). Paderborn: Mentis, 2001), Swartz (The concept of physical law (2nd ed.). http://www.sfu.ca/philosophy/physical-law/,2003), Halpin (Erkenntnis, 58, 137 - 168, 2003) - to direct their attention back to regularity theoretic analyses. In light of the latest proposals of regularity theories, the paper at hand therefore reassesses the criticism raised against regularity accounts since the INUS theory of causation of Mackie (The cement of the universe. A study of causation. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974). It is shown that most of these objections target strikingly over-simplified regularity theoretic sketches. By outlining ways to refute these objections it is argued that the prevalent conviction as to the overall failure of regularity theories has been hasty.