Science and magic

causality

Peeter Müürsepp

pp. 165-178

in: Rein Vihalemm (ed), Estonian studies in the history and philosophy of science, Berlin, Springer, 2001

Abstract

We are going to address one of the most general and, at the same time, most intriguing issues in philosophy of science. Namely, we are going to analyze, when and why is science really scientific, and when does it tend towards magic. As the headline suggests, we shall base our inquiry on the notion of causality and the role of this concept in modem science.