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Dependencies Across Spacetime: The Geometry of Chance and Causation
Dependencies Across Spacetime: The Geometry of Chance and Causation
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202104729
- ISBN
- 9798293889952
- DDC
- 501
- 저자명
- Jaeger, Jens.
- 서명/저자
- Dependencies Across Spacetime: The Geometry of Chance and Causation
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : New York University, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 219 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-03, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Dorr, Cian.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Philosophical investigations into the nature of chance and causation have typically assumed classical spacetime backgrounds. My dissertation argues that this practice misses important lessons. I argue that, by tying chance functions to times, orthodox theories of chance cannot state important Markov-style independence principles and fail outright in spacetimes that lack a linear time structure, e.g. due to closed time-like curves. By contrast, the urchance approach, developed in the dissertation's first half, works in any spacetime geometry, captures the needed independence principles, and resolves the puzzle of chances on closed time-like curves. Two general morals follow: chance isn't as intimately tied to time or causation as is usually thought, and chances can vary even across intrinsically duplicate trials.On the causation side, counterfactualist reductions are unable to deal with synchronic nomic constraints-law-based, yet non-causal, links between simultaneous events. These constraints occur not only in temporal-loop geometries but also in common-or-garden theories like Maxwellian electrodynamics, set in ordinary relativistic spacetimes. I argue that, to save the counterfactualist approach to causation, its defenders must separate genuinely dynamical counterfactual influences from those produced solely by synchronic constraints.
- 일반주제명
- Philosophy of science
- 일반주제명
- Metaphysics
- 일반주제명
- Mathematics
- 키워드
- Causation
- 키워드
- Counterfactuals
- 키워드
- Spacetime
- 키워드
- Geometry
- 기타저자
- New York University Philosophy
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-03B.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■5021 ▼aThesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2025.
■520 ▼aPhilosophical investigations into the nature of chance and causation have typically assumed classical spacetime backgrounds. My dissertation argues that this practice misses important lessons. I argue that, by tying chance functions to times, orthodox theories of chance cannot state important Markov-style independence principles and fail outright in spacetimes that lack a linear time structure, e.g. due to closed time-like curves. By contrast, the urchance approach, developed in the dissertation's first half, works in any spacetime geometry, captures the needed independence principles, and resolves the puzzle of chances on closed time-like curves. Two general morals follow: chance isn't as intimately tied to time or causation as is usually thought, and chances can vary even across intrinsically duplicate trials.On the causation side, counterfactualist reductions are unable to deal with synchronic nomic constraints-law-based, yet non-causal, links between simultaneous events. These constraints occur not only in temporal-loop geometries but also in common-or-garden theories like Maxwellian electrodynamics, set in ordinary relativistic spacetimes. I argue that, to save the counterfactualist approach to causation, its defenders must separate genuinely dynamical counterfactual influences from those produced solely by synchronic constraints.
■590 ▼aSchool code: 0146.
■650 4▼aPhilosophy of science
■650 4▼aMetaphysics
■650 4▼aMathematics
■653 ▼aCausation
■653 ▼aCounterfactuals
■653 ▼aSpacetime
■653 ▼aGeometry
■653 ▼aSynchronic constraints
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■792 ▼a2025
■793 ▼aEnglish
■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17358630▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.


