Causal Informational Structural Realism

BENI M. D.

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, cilt.33, sa.2, ss.117-134, 2020 (AHCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 33 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2020
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/02698595.2020.1848346
  • Dergi Adı: INTERNATIONAL STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, IBZ Online, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Agricultural & Environmental Science Database, Educational research abstracts (ERA), Philosopher's Index, Religion and Philosophy Collection, Sociological abstracts, zbMATH
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.117-134
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The debate between proponents and opponents of causal foundationalism has recently surfaced as a disparity between causal structuralism and causal anti-foundationalism in the structural realist camp. The paper outlines and dissolves the problem of disparity for (informational) structural realism. I follow John Collier (also Carl T. Bergstrom and Martin Rosvall) to specify causation in terms of the transmission of information. Unlike them, I built upon the reverse quantum data-processing inequality to show how this approach models causation as a symmetric process at the level of fundamental physics (but not special sciences). I show how this suggestion reduces the disparity about causation to a problem of application to diverse contexts.