FOUNDATION AND CAUSALITY
Keywords:
Grounding, Causation, Dependence, Ontological priorityAbstract
Recent works have proposed a treatment of grounding “in
the image of causation”. There are important analogies between grounding and
causation: both seem to be ‘building’ relations, both seem to be strict orders,
and both seem amenable to representation by models of structural equations
(cf. Schaffer, 2016; Wilson, 2018). But it seems also that there are important
differences, because causation is usually considered as an external relation,
while grounding is internal; there are cases of probabilistic causation, but there
is nothing like probabilistic grounding; grounding is taken to be a well-founded
relation, but not causation; grounding entails ontological supervenience, but
not causation. It is argued here that most of those supposed differences are
motivated by a Humean conception of causation in which there are no necessary
connections between cause and effect. A non-Humean view of causation, though,
makes the unification of grounding and causation much more reasonable that
any separate treatment.
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