The singularist theory of causation

Hume's famously influential account of causation 

The idea that event c causes event e if and only if had c not had occurred e would not have occurred either. 

The idea that there are real metaphysical necessities relating cause and effect. 

Our counterfactuals series moves forward to 1989: David talks to Lea Ypi about what might have happened if the Berlin Wall hadn’t fallen when it did. Was the night it came down really just one big accident? How long could the East German regime have lasted? And what does the fate ... Show More

In this episode we sit down with Brian Klaas, author of Fluke, and get into the existential lessons and grander meaning for a life well-lived (once one finally accepts the power and influence of randomness, chaos, and chance). In addition, we learn not to fall prey to proportiona ... Show More

What is the premise of the Morphic Resonance Theory? The lower laws of nature are more like habits. Meaning, each species has a type of collective memory, the collective unconscious so to speak, not just a memory of behavior like instinct, but also a form. For example, when a cab ... Show More

Physicists have ruled out a mundane explanation for the strange findings of an old Soviet experiment, leaving open the possibility that the results point to a new fundamental particle. The post What Could Explain the Gallium Anomaly? first appeared on Quanta Magazine 

On December 9, 1965, hundreds of people saw a ball of fire streak across the sky and crash in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania. Witnesses at the crash site described seeing a 10-foot-tall, acorn-shaped ship. But before they could determine where it came from, the military shut down the sc ... Show More

The disappearance of Kurt Sova should have been an open-and-shut case. But the deeper you look, the stranger it gets: a mysterious van, a dirty cop, and a prediction that eerily comes true. What really happened that night in 1981?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy an ... Show More

The story behind one of the most deadly volcanic events in recorded history. 

What could have caused the Big Bang, and what came before it?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

📖 Episode Transcripts in Link Below ⬇️ Today, we’ll take a closer look at one of the most shocking and tragic moments in modern American history: the assassination of John F. Kennedy. This event not only shook the United States but also left the entire world in mourning and myst ... Show More

In the fourth and final lecture, we examine the notion of ‘objective fact’ on which scientific theories are built; what sort of fact is such that we can build a scientific theory on it?