PHIL 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Immanence
15 May 2017
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We should sat that as least one of the events that are involved in the act is caused, not by any other events, but by something else instead. A) causation as a relation between events or states of affairs (transient causation/event causation: causation as a relation between agents and events (immanent causation/agent causation) E. g. a brain command to make a decision. When an agent acts, she causes her brain to issue certain commands to the body, which in turn moves in a certain way, performing the act. An apparent problem (cid:498)the cause without a cause(cid:499) How can one distinguish it from mere happenings o. This is a problem faced by the theory of indeterminism. According to the theory, which is often based on scientific evidence, such as quantum mechanics, physical events are not determined, but products of somewhat random processes. But if that is the case, all our decisions also seem to be random.
