THE EVOLUTION OF THE CONCEPT OF CAUSALITY: FROM DETERMINISM TO CHAOS
Anna Yuryevna Storozhuk
Institute of Philosophy and Law, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 8 Nikolaeva str., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
Keywords: причина, детерминизм, нелинейность, хаос, cause, determinism, nonlinearity, chaos
Abstract
The article marks out three approaches to understanding causality. Those are determinism which supposes a linear character of causality; nonlinear causality which does not obey the superposition principle and is characterized by attenuation/intensification of consequences; and chaotic causality which obeys certain types of ordering. We trace ontological, epistemological and axiological statuses of causality in various approaches. We state that there is a gradual replacement of the causal paradigm in public consciousness, although the linear deterministic causality paradigm still often remains dominant.
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