Causal structuralism

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Volumn 35, Issue SUPPL. 15, 2001, Pages 361-378

  Hawthorne, John ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84870805771     PISSN: 00294624     EISSN: 14680068     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0029-4624.35.s15.16     Document Type: Article

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1. The causal structuralist will thus see something deeply misleading in Hilary Putnam's distinction between 'a causal description' and 'a canonical description' of a property, where a canonical description is of the form 'the property of being F' while the causal description picks out a property via its causal role. For the causal structuralist, it is the causal description that most deserves the label 'canonical'. See 'On Properties' in Mathematics, Matter and Method, Philosophical Papers Volume 1(Cambridge University Press, 1975), p. 316.
2. Cf. Shoemaker 'Causality and Properties', in Identity, Cause and Mind (Cambridge University Press, 1984), p. 207.
3. Cf. Thomas Aquinas, who thought that form in the case of angels, and that form plus a certain originating quantity of matter in the case of corporeal substances (where 'quantity of matter' was not conceived of haecceitistically) was sufficient for individuation. See his On Being and Essence.
4. 'Causal and Metaphysical Necessity', Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 1998, Volume 79 p. 66.
5. 'Causal and Metaphysical Necessity', p. 69-70.
6. 'Causality and Properties', p. 215.
7. Cf David Lewis 'Elusive Knowledge', Australian Journal of Philosophy 74(1996), p. 549-567.
8. 'On The Possibility of Philosophical Knowledge', Philosophical Perspectives 10: Metaphysics, 1996, p. 23
9. The Analysis of Matter (Kegan Paul, 1927), p. 264.
10. See his What is a Law of Nature? (Cambridge University Press, 1983).
11. On The Plurality of Worlds (Blackwell, 1986), p. 87-88.
12. From Metaphysics to Ethics (Clarendon Press, 1998), pg 24.
13. 'The Identity of Indiscernibles', in Problems of Analysis, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1954, p. 80-92.
14. See Ordinatio II d3 p1 q7