Intuitions play an important role in the debate on the causal status of high-level properties. For instance, Kim has claimed that his “exclusion argument” relies on “a perfectly intuitive … understanding of the causal relation.” We report the results of three experiments examining whether laypeople really have the relevant intuitions. We find little support for Kim's view and the principles on which it relies. Instead, we find that laypeople are willing to count both a multiply realized property and its realizers as causes, and regard the systematic overdetermination implied by this view as unproblematic.

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因果排除实验

直觉在关于高级属性因果关系的争论中发挥着重要作用。例如，Kim 声称他的“排除论证”依赖于“对因果关系的完全直觉……理解”。我们报告了三个实验的结果，以检验外行人是否真的具有相关的直觉。我们发现很少有人支持 Kim 的观点及其所依赖的原则。相反，我们发现外行人愿意将多重实现的财产及其实现者都视为原因，并认为这种观点所暗示的系统性过度决定是没有问题的。