Pensamento, fenômeno experimental e experimento na proposta pragmaticista

O Pragmaticismo de Charles Sanders Peirce, como teoria geral da concepção, e uma teoria do signo e uma teoria do pensamento. Limitando-se à consideração do teor racional dos símbolos, o pragmaticismo procura estabelecer o tipo de causação atribuível ao pensamento: uma causação eficiente centralizada na percepção e no experimento e uma causação final que determina um hábito racional de conduta diante da classe geral de fenômenos experimentais representada no conceito.

Cosmos evolutivo e plano da criação na filosofia peirceana

O uso da metáfora da sob-existência do plano de um velho fórum na mente de seu arquiteto, a fim de entender o modo de ser do estado inicial do cosmos poderia dar origem a uma postulação de um plano na mente divina ou na natureza. A perfeição divina e o processo evolucionário do cosmos e da Razão, tais como são expostos na filosofia de PEIRCE, parecem opor-se à realidade de um tal plano. O presente artigo é um ensaio de discussão desta questão.

Development of a methodology for accident causation research. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Pedestrian injury causation parameters. Phase II. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Tri-level study: modification. Task 4: final report on the relationships between driver characteristics and accident causation.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Tri-level study: modification. Task 6: a final report on supplemental causation assessments through hypothesis testing.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Accident causation methodology development for the National Accident Sampling System: final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Pedestrian injury causation parameters - phase I. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Tri-level study: modification. Task 2: final report on driver/vehicle characteristics related to vehicle condition and causation and an assessment of Indiana PMVI effectiveness to reduce the frequency and severity of accident causes by vehicular-related malfunctions/degradations. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Pedestrian injury causation parameters. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Pedestrian injury causation parameters. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Pedestrian injury causation study - (PICS). Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Pedestrian injury causation study. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Washington, D.C.

Accident and near accident causation: the contribution of automobile design characteristics. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Mental Causation : Investigating the mind's powers in a natural world

4.6 Summary and Conclusion In this chapter, we have first tried to make precise the distinctions between the concepts of parthood and coincidence and the concepts of causation and causal influence. These distinc-tions had never been made entirely explicit in the debate on mental causation before, despite the fact that they constantly figure in its background. Section 4.2 then demonstrated that the at-tained definitions are both compatible with all the solutions elaborated in chapters 2 and 3 and that they are even of great help in clarifying both what precisely the mentioned accounts are claiming respectively and what their mutual connections are. In sections 4.3. and 4.4, we have then tried to explore two possible solutions to the problem of mental causation that, at least in these particular versions, have not been explicitly defended in the literature. These solutions we dubbed "overdeteiminationism lite" and "plural determinism". We found the accounts both to bear impressive explanatory capabilities and to be vulnerable to far fewer problems than is commonly supposed. We also found out that they have many corresponding aspects and that their theoretical costs stand in a relation of a relative mutual balance. Our final discussion in section 4.5 revealed, however, that overdetenninationism lite should probably be considered the more successful theory. The fact that it needs to endorse the existence of two kinds of causation, although not unproblematic itself, did not appear as a commitment as strong as that of an ontological hierarchy that extends over all time, which at least the broad version of plural determinism was forced to make.