Elizabeth Anscombe - Causality and Determination

In her 1971 article Causality and Determination, Elizabeth Anscombe argues that causality is neither a matter of necessary connection nor a matter of universal generalisations. Rather, causality has to do with one thing leading to something else. She also argues that we have no reason to believe in determinism, and wouldn't even have such a reason if we still believed in deterministic laws of nature like those of Newton. Finally, she briefly defends incompatibilism about free will.
Victor Gijsbers teaches philosophy at Leiden University in the Netherlands. This video is part of an ongoing look at various philosophical papers: • Philosophical Papers

[@nowheretobefound4431]

Thanks again, Your vids are a great way of interfering with my normal thinking patterns.

[@richardcollins6769]

Dr Gijsbers - How often we need to say thank you for posting these videos. Would you be interested in how this relates to Critical Realism, which may be viewed a development of causality. If so it would be great if you did a series on Bhaskar's work. Your English is way better than you seem to think - we do call it lead (as in the pun: 'one can take a horse to water but a pencil must be lead') and it really is graphite (according to Google you would call it grafiet). This illustrates Bhakar's approach to science. It is subject to change but generally it is OK to use it in the best form we have it - it used to be thought that graphite was a form of lead).

[@joekewolterbeek1224]

Thank you very much! A clear explanation of a complex text. Doe je goed :)

[@clumsydad7158]

when in doubt, exercise your will

[@maximilyen]

Helpful

[@MohamedSaid-eu4of]

Allah bless you bro!! your material is very helpfull!!

[@VictorGijsbers]

Glad to hear it!

[@martinbennett2228]

In order to defend free will she adopts a weird notion in which randomness is characterised as free will as if the person who catches a virus from an infected person was suffering from a failure of the will (assuming she did not want the virus).

[@kadaganchivinod8003]

Talk about Aesthetic theories sometime

[@VictorGijsbers]

Maybe I will, but it's not really my field! I'm much more knowledgeable about metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science.