causalism

English

Etymology

causal + -ism

Noun

causalism (countable and uncountable, plural causalisms)

  1. (philosophy) The doctrine that actions have a direct cause, especially that people's actions are caused by their mental state at the time
    • 2007 March 6, Andrew Sneddon, “The depths and shallows of psychological externalism”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 138, number 3, DOI:10.1007/s11098-006-9058-8:
      11 Since Donald Davidson’s “Actions, Reasons, and Causes” ( 1963 ), causalism about action explanations has been widely accepted (and perennially contested).

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