id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_7se6hkl6rjdwfb74esshlcgh5y Mathias Frisch No place for causes? Causal skepticism in physics 2011 27 .pdf application/pdf 12098 647 55 of cause, causal notions have no legitimate role to play in how mature physical theories represent embedding the dynamical models of a theory into richer causal structures can allow us to decide asymmetry of the causal relation and the putative time-­‐reversal invariance of the dynamical laws of of such causal reasoning, concerning our inference to the existence of a field source based on local causal relations are incompatible with the time-­‐symmetric laws of physical theories. that causal representations play an essential inferential and explanatory role in radiation theory. 2.2 Causal relations are not part of the formulas or state-­‐space models of a theory. models of a set of equations do not contain structures representing asymmetric causal relations that If we want to establish that causal relations cannot be part of how physics represents the to argue that any appeal to asymmetric causal structures in addition to a theory's purely dynamical ./cache/work_7se6hkl6rjdwfb74esshlcgh5y.pdf ./txt/work_7se6hkl6rjdwfb74esshlcgh5y.txt