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The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science

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29 C AUS ATION Christopher Hitchcock Introduction In a paper read before the Aristotelian Society, Bertrand Russell (1913: 1) claimed: All philosophers, of every school, imagine that causation is one of the fundamental axioms or postulates of science, yet, oddly enough, in advanced sciences such as gravitational astronomy, the word “cause” never appears. . . To me, it seems that . . . the reason why physics has ceased to look for causes is that, in fact, there are no such things. The law of…

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