Volume 99, Issue 4 pp. 664-682
Original Article

Indeterministic Causation and Two Patches for the Pairing Argument

Bradford Saad

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Bradford Saad

Department of Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin

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First published: 12 May 2017
Citations: 3

Abstract

The pairing argument aims to demonstrate the impossibility of non-spatial objects (including minds) standing in causal relations. Its chief premises are (roughly) that causation requires pairing relations between causes and effects and that pairing relations require spatial relations. Critics have argued that the first claim suffers from counterexamples involving indeterministic causation. After briefly rehearsing the pairing argument and the objection from indeterministic causation, I offer two ways of revising the pairing argument to meet the objection from indeterministic causation.

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