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What are Coincidences? A Philosophical Guide Between Science and Common Sense

What are Coincidences? A Philosophical Guide Between Science and Common Sense

Melas, Alessandra
Salis, Pietro

Paperback

Series: Philosophy of Science

PhilosophyGeneral PsychologyHistory & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 1648899471
ISBN13: 9781648899478
Publisher: Vernon Press
Published: Mar 12 2024
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.19 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

It is a common opinion that chance events cannot be understood in causal terms. Conversely, according to a causal view of chance, intersections between independent causal chains originate accidental events, called coincidences. Firstly, this book explores this causal conception of chance and tries to shed new light on it. Such a view has been defended by authors like Antoine Augustine Cournot and Jacques Monod. Second, a relevant alternative is provided by those accounts that, instead of acknowledging an intersection among causal lines, claim to track coincidences back to some common cause. Third, starting from Herbert Hart and Anthony Honoré's view of coincidences (Causation in the Law. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1959). This book provides a more detailed account of coincidences, according to which coincidental events are hybrids constituted by ontic (physical) components, which is the intersection between independent causal chains, plus epistemic aspects, including but not limited to, access to information, expectations, relevance, significance, desires, which in turn are psychological aspects.

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