Causal Finitism, Grim Reapers, Benardete Paradoxes and Patchwork Principles | Troy Dana

Описание: 🧠 Can there be infinitely many causes?
In this episode of the NT Podcast, I speak with Troy Dana, host of the YouTube channel Friction, about causal finitism, temporal finitism, and a family of paradoxes that challenge the coherence of infinite causal structures.

We explore:
⏳ The distinction between causal and temporal finitism
🧩 Discrete models of time
⚔️ Benardete’s paradoxes and B-arguments
☠️ The Grim Reaper paradox (including Koons’ version)
💡 Nicholas Shackel’s formal diagnosis of Benardete-style paradoxes
💡 The Bulb Paradox and whether it undermines Grim Reaper reasoning
📘 Ibrahim Dagher’s remarkably strong argument for causal finitism
🎲 Infinite fair lotteries, Methuselah’s Diary, and the finitude of the past

These paradoxes raise deep questions about causation, infinity, and the metaphysics of time—and whether reality itself must be finite in its causal structure.

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• Article by Troy Dana and Joe Schmid: https://philpapers.org/rec/SCHGRP-4

• Troy Dana’s YouTube Channel – Friction: ‪@Friction‬

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