Marriage and Anomie: A Causal Argument

The paper presents a new version of the "Cosmological Argument" – considered to be an ontological argument, since it exclusively uses ontological concepts and principles. It employs famous results of modern physics, and distinguishes between event-causation and agent-causation. Due to these features, the argument manages to avoid the objection of infinite regress. It remains true, however, that the conclusion of the argument (just like the conclusion of Thomas Aquinas’s causal argument) is too unspecific to be unambiguously considered an argument for the existence of God.

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Memory Disjunctivism: a Causal Theory

Review of Philosophy and Psychology ◽

10.1007/s13164-021-00569-y ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Alex Moran

Keyword(s):

Episodic Memory ◽

Recent Literature ◽

Common Factor ◽

Causal Theory ◽

Mental Event ◽

Causal Process ◽

Causal Argument ◽

Memory Experience ◽

Screening Off ◽

Central Claim

AbstractRelationalists about episodic memory must endorse a disjunctivist theory of memory-experience according to which cases of genuine memory and cases of total confabulation involve distinct kinds of mental event with different natures. This paper is concerned with a pair of arguments against this view, which are analogues of the ‘causal argument’ and the ‘screening off argument’ that have been pressed in recent literature against relationalist (and hence disjunctivist) theories of perception. The central claim to be advanced is that to deal with these two arguments, memory disjunctivists both can and should draw on resources that are standardly appealed to by rival common factor theories of episodic memory, and, in particular, to the idea that genuine memories and merely apparent ones are to be distinguished, at least in part, in terms of the distinctive ways in which they are caused. On the proposed view, there are substantive causal constraints associated both with cases of genuine memory and with cases of mere confabulation. The resulting theory thus tells us something important about the nature both of genuine memories and of mere confabulations, namely, that such experiences must be caused in certain distinctive ways and cannot occur except as the result of a distinctive sort of causal process. In addition, the theory enables the disjunctivist to offer a unified response to an important pair of arguments against her view.

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Destination Competitiveness

Positioning and Branding Tourism Destinations for Global Competitiveness - Advances in Hospitality, Tourism, and the Services Industry ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-7253-4.ch003 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 49-73

Author(s):

Philip Wong Pong Weng

Keyword(s):

Willingness To Pay ◽

Brand Equity ◽

Delphi Survey ◽

Mediating Effect ◽

Destination Loyalty ◽

Causal Argument ◽

Destination Competitiveness ◽

Destination Brand ◽

The Relationship

Numerous studies suggest that an increase in a destination's brand equity can lead to greater competitiveness of the destination by influencing consumer behavior through the greater possibility of destination selection, increased destination loyalty, and a willingness to pay more to visit the destination. However, some studies seem to lend support to the reverse causal argument: that certain destination competitiveness attributes can be the antecedents of a destination's brand equity. This chapter posits that destination competitiveness can be classified into two components: (1) “functional attributes” being the antecedent of destination brand equity and (2) “abstract attributes” that is actually influenced by destination brand equity. A Delphi-survey was conducted to assist in the classification of competitiveness attributes into the components of either functional or abstract attributes. Subsequent tests confirm the mediating effect of destination brand equity in the relationship between the functional and abstract attributes.

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Hume’s Causal Reconstruction of the Perceptual Relativity Argument in Treatise 1.4.4

Dialogue ◽

10.1017/s0012217309090052 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 48 (1) ◽

pp. 77-101 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Annemarie Butler

Keyword(s):

Causal Argument ◽

Secondary Qualities

ABSTRACT: In Treatise 1.4.4, on behalf of modern philosophers, Hume described a causal argument that shows that our impressions of secondary qualities do not resemble qualities of objects themselves. However, in their respective arguments, Hume’s philosophical predecessors did not argue causally, but appealed to contrary qualities. I argue that Hume’s presentation was not simply a “gratuitous” stylistic difference, but an important correction of his predecessors in light of his own philosophical discoveries.

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The Role of Causal Argument in Policy Controversies

Argumentation and Advocacy ◽

10.1080/00028533.1977.11951105 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 179-191

Author(s):

David Zarefsky

Keyword(s):

Causal Argument

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