• Philosophy
• Published 2010
• DOI:10.1111/j.1746-8361.2010.01237.x

Closure Principles and the Laws of Conservation of Energy and Momentum

@inproceedings{Gibb2010ClosurePA,
  title={Closure Principles and the Laws of Conservation of Energy and Momentum},
  author={Sophie Gibb},
  year={2010}
}

• Sophie Gibb

The conservation laws do not establish the central premise within the argument from causal overdetermination - the causal completeness of the physical domain. Contrary to David Papineau (2000 and 2002), this is true even if there is no non-physical energy. The combination of the conservation laws with the claim that there is no non-physical energy would establish the causal completeness principle only if, at the very least, two further causal claims were accepted. First, the claim that the only… CONTINUE READING

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