causation (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, May 23, 2014, 19:08 (3626 days ago) @ dhw

GEORGE: Why some of us are obsessed with causation
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> http://www.psmag.com/science/creatures-of-coherence-why-were-so-obsessed-with-causation... dhw: I don't know enough about Ross Pomeroy or the Pacific Standard to tell whether " victims of luck and randomness" is a way of saying that luck and randomness are his answer to the quintessential question of existence. If so, he has chosen what seems to me a remarkably inept way of putting his case. If not,do we really need to be told that "some things don't have clear answers"?-Thanks for supplying the content. It does not seem to want to cross the Atlantic, or perhaps the philosophic content is blocked from coming, as foolish as it sounds through your interpretation. George should tell us why it interested him. Will he defend it?