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主讲人：池泽钰（zc255@cornell.edu）

题目：Event Dependence and Determinism

时间：11月25日12：10-13:00

地点：哲学系B114

摘要：

History consists of a chain or web of particular events which are causally dependent on one another in a complicated way. There is an intuitive sense that history thus understood is contingent: numerous things could have been otherwise so that we don’t get the exact chain making up our actual history. What does the intuition tell us about the dependence relation between particular historical events? The counterfactual analysis of dependence doesn’t seem to do us any good here. Nor is the regularity model that it sets to replace of any help here. (Nor is the covering law model of explanation for this matter, given the obvious reason that history, like medicine, concerns itself with particular causal chains or webs.) A better alternative, I argue, is to accept indeterministic dependence between events. The proposal has an implication for our thinking of the determinism thesis in the free will literature: there is little reason to believe that determinism accurately describes the relation between particular events once we accept that (most? all?) dependence between historical events is genuinely indeterministic.

需要午餐的老师请回复下面这个简单的问卷，方便我们统计人数：

https://www.wjx.top/m/98114326.aspx

如有任何关于此次活动的问题请联系泽钰（zc255@cornell.edu)或者小赛（sebastian.sunday.greve@gmail.com）。