Sentences with phrase «philosophy of science causation»

For example, in standard contemporary philosophy of science causation is characterized in terms of law - exhibiting sequences in the order of events, whereas more traditional and common sense views often conceive of causation in terms of a generative and governing force or power.

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But -LSB-...] to grasp reality as it is, we must return to our pre-scientific and post-scientific knowledge, the tacit knowledge that pervades science -LSB-...] Prior to both science and theology is philosophy, the «science of common experience» -LSB-...] Modern science first excludes a priori final and formal causes, then investigates nature under the reductive mode ofmechanism (efficient and material causes)-LSB-... It is] reason -LSB-... which grasps] the «vertical» causation of formality and finality».