Sentence examples for causal theorist from inspiring English sources

The causal theorist faces a dilemma here.

But it is unclear what notion of causation the causal theorist should adopt instead of 'but-for' causation (Blustein 1997).

Alternatively, the causal theorist can modify her view so as to allow for events subsequent to the initial dubbing to affect what a given name refers to.

The causal theorist can admit that some mental states are not about their causes, since some states are thoughts and thoughts mean what they do in virtue of, say, the meanings of mental sentences.

According to a typical causal theorist, many terms are coined in a "baptismal ceremony," during which the dubber points at an object in her perceptual field (hence, the object's causal role), and establishes reference by appeal to this object.

My intention did not cause me to shake 'in the right way.' Nor is the 'right way' obviously a matter of 'proximate' causation or the absence of causal intermediaries, since a causal theorist may well allow for neural intermediaries, and further intentions, in the causal path from intention to action.

Can causal theorists (or hybrid theorists, for that matter) also hold a view like this? Yes.

But causal theorists may deny that claim about the temporality of causes, conceiving intention as the simultaneous, sustaining cause of what one is doing (Thalberg 1984, pp. 257 8).

Bridges next observes that causal theorists typically maintain that the putative fact that all "X"s are reliably caused by Xs is mediated by underlying mechanisms of one sort or another.

We need a notion of "selection for" that is both general enough to work for all the mental contents causal theorists aspire to address and that does not tacitly import semantic notions.

It is said by some agent-causal theorists to be fundamentally different from event causation.