causalism
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causalism (countable and uncountable, plural causalisms)
- (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, :
- 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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Do not confuse causalism (philosophy of causes) with casualism (philosophy of chance).
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