Causation may be a structural or dispositional feature of reality rather than an act requiring a mental agent, as argued in Aristotelian immanentteleology and neo-Aristotelian powers ontology.
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Ontology(Carnap argues this enterprise is based on a mistake)
The philosophical discipline that tries to answer hard questions about what there really is.
Powers ontology(as a modern philosophical framework for understanding causation)
A theory about what exists in the world, emphasizing that things have inherent powers or abilities to cause effects (like how a knife has the power to cut).
Structural feature(as what the statement claims configuration-space separation is)
A fundamental, built-in aspect of how something works—as opposed to something that just happens to occur by chance.
causation(Lewis's counterfactual theory of causation)
Event C causes event E if and only if there exists a chain C, D1, …, Dn, E such that each member (except C) is counterfactually dependent on the preceding event; causation is the ancestral of counterfactual dependence
neo-Aristotelian(as used in metaethics and virtue ethics)
A modern philosophical approach that builds on ideas from Aristotle (ancient Greek philosopher) but updates them for contemporary thinking.