Vertical Causation and Wholeness
Wolfgang Smith Editor’s Note: This article is also available in Spanish and Portuguese. Vertical causality made its appearance in the context of the mea...
Vertical Causality
Vertical Causation (III): Vertical Causality and the “Limit Theorems”
Raphael De Paola According to Wolfgang Smith, modern physics has discovered a unique, hitherto unknown ontological plane, namely the aforementioned “physical...
Vertical Causation (II): Corporeal Strata and The Distinction
Raphael De Paola All corporeal beings can be classified in one of four levels of the following hierarchical order: mineral, vegetable, animal, and human (i.e., ...
On the Scientific Implications of Vertical Causality
Wolfgang Smith Following Galileo, Descartes and Newton, Western civilization succumbed to the spell of what I have termed horizontal causation. From the publica...