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Desc: | Time and causation appear as fundamental ordering principles in our manifest image of the world. And each has famously been subjected to skeptical challenges alleging that what appear as fundamental bits of metaphysics are not part of nature properly conceived but rather projections of the human mind. Claims of this sort are routinely made by physicists and philosophers alike, though for different reasons. We will look at the skeptical challenges and at the correlative effort to construct psychological explanations to fill in what the world cannot supply. Topics to be considered about time include the asymmetry of past and future, the privileged nature of the "now," the valuation of time and its asymmetries, and cultural variation in the manifest image of time. Topics to be considered about causation include Humean, process, and manipulationist theories, the temporal asymmetry of cause and effect, and the psychology of causal perception and judgment. Our goal will be to identify productive research projects at the integrative intersection of science and philosophy. |
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