Code
3F004913
Duration
01 October 2013 → 30 September 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- Theory and methodology of philosophy
- Philosophy
- Ethics
- Other philosophy, ethics and religious studies not elsewhere classified
Keywords
causation
physics
engineering
evidence
philosophy of science
Project description
In this project I will study physical causation by focusing on practical situations and applications rather than on physical laws. In order to formalise these applications, I define the concept ‘physical setup’. With this I analyse the meaning of causal claims, the type of evidence needed for these claims and the relationship these setups have with the laws of physics.