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Marmura conceded that al-Ghazâlî makes use of causalist language

Guess Who Was At The Party? 2009

Dilthey's hermeneutic philosophy offered a non-positivist, non-causalist starting point for the "human sciences".

Archive 2009-03-01 Daniel Little 2009

Dilthey's hermeneutic philosophy offered a non-positivist, non-causalist starting point for the "human sciences".

Philosophical frameworks in the social sciences Daniel Little 2009

It can be gathered from isolated statements like the one above and the fact that after the Incoherence al-Ghazâlî wrote books where he maintained a distinctly occasionalist cosmology (al-Ghazâlî 1962) and others like the 35th book of his Revival or the Niche of Lights, where he uses language that is explicitly causalist.

Guess Who Was At The Party? 2009

Many have felt that this position only lands Davidson (qua causalist) in deeper trouble.

Action Wilson, George 2007

Therefore, just as there are causalist analyses of what it is to do something intentionally, so there are similar counterpart analyses of teleological explanations of goal directed and, more narrowly, intentional action.

Action Wilson, George 2007

“Actions, Reasons, and, Causes,” Davidson first pointed out that the thesis that there are no reason-to-action laws is crucially ambiguous between a stronger and a weaker reading, and he observes that it is the stronger version that is required for the non-causalist conclusion.

Action Wilson, George 2007

First, for the most part, the non-causalist position relied chiefly on negative arguments that purported to show that, for conceptual reasons, motivating reasons could not be causes of action.

Action Wilson, George 2007

The causalist about teleological explanation maintains that the goal of the behavior for the agent just is a goal the agent had at the time, one that caused the behavior and, of course, one that caused it in the right way [for criticism, see Sehon 1998, 2005].

Action Wilson, George 2007

In spite of this neglect Collingwood's philosophy of history articulates a non-causalist position that is relevant to the reasons versus causes debate in its contemporary incarnation.

Robin George Collingwood D'Oro, Giuseppina 2006