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If a charged particle is an electromagnetic field, the field exerts a Lorentz force F  =  q E  +  q v  ×  B , where q and v are the charge...

In an earlier post , I said that an account that insists that all fundamental causation is simultaneous but secures the diachronic aspects o...

Consider the Causal Simultaneity Thesis (CST) that all causation is simultaneous. Assume that simultaneity is absolute (rather than relative...

Some philosophers hold that all fundamental instances of causal relations are simultaneous. Many of these philosophers are Aristotelians, th...

As a four-dimensionalist, I have been puzzled both by the arguments that divine conservation is necessary secure the persistence of substanc...

I will argue, on Aristotelian grounds, for the following thesis: There are cases of actualization of potentials that are simultaneous with...

Every so often, someone claims to me that there is a difficulty in reconciling the Aristotelian idea of the actualization of potential with ...

The main problem with the idea that all causation is simultaneous is to make sense of the obvious fact of diachronic causation, as when sett...

Suppose that all immediate causation is simultaneous. The only way to make this fit with the obvious fact that there is diachronic causation...

It’s widely thought that Newtonian gravity, when causally interpreted, involves instantaneous causation at a distance. But I think this is t...

My colleague Todd Buras has inspired this argument: A veridical experience of an event is caused by the event. Sometimes a human being is v...

When I look at a rock, I see the rock and not just its outside surface. Of course, it is the outside layer that is causally responsible for ...