In philosophy of causation, the notion of proportionality is important. It came to the philosophical literature from Yablo (1992) and has been extensively discussed since then. Woodward (2021, 15-16) characterizes the notion as follows: “Proportionality concerns the extent to which there is a match between the variation in the cause and the variation in the […]
The Future Is Soon. A Manifesto for Micro-Futures
In this post, I claim that focusing on timespans shorter than the traditional ones sheds new light on the study of the future. … Futures research has focused on relatively long timespans, ranging normally from 5-50 years (Nordlund 2012). However, it is unclear why this is so, or has to be so. Why is five […]