CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Nachigami, Fumiya |
|---|---|
| Title | Causation and Identification: Study on Strawson's Descriptive and Connective Investigations |
| Summary | This thesis endeavours to locate the concept of causation in the framework of our experience limned by P. F. Strawson (1959). In Chapter 1, I will begin by introducing descriptive metaphysics and connective analysis. Then I will present the general picture of the conceptual framework by examining its basic concepts, namely, those of Space and Time, material bodies, and persons. In Chapter 2, I will argue that the conceptual framework should include the concept of causation to connect other basic concepts, and ultimately to secure the possibility of experience. I will also discuss the location of the concept of causation in the framework, as causation is thought by Strawson to belong only to our explanatory vocabulary, that is, causation is thought to hold between facts, not between events in nature. I will argue that the concept of causation must be in the framework as its essential component; even though causation plays a distinctive role in explanation, it is also what the possibility of identification of a particular and thus the whole conceptual framework hinge on. Chapter 3 focuses on the way in which the concept of causation contributes to identification of a particular. First, I will discuss what we take as identifying features of a particular and how causal relations between objects operate on it. It will turn out that admitting causal elements in identification generates a tension between universals and particulars. The last section of Chapter 3 is dedicated to resolving this tension. |
| Supervisor | Ben-Yami, Hanoch |
| Department | Philosophy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/nachigami_fumiya.pdf |
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