因果性问题从古希腊到现在一直吸引着一些杰出的哲学家的注意。它过去曾得到了自然科学尤其是经典物理学的有力支持,但在本世纪30至50年代却遭到了现代自然科学中的量子理论的非难。于是,哲学家(包括科学家)以为它将随着量子理论的产生而在科学和哲学中消亡了。其实不然。量子理论并不是要否定因果性,而是要清除因果性概念中的机械决定论的成分。加拿大著名的哲学家、当代精确哲学的主要代表人物马里奥·邦格则十分敏锐地看 The problem of causality has drawn the attention of some prominent philosophers from ancient Greece to the present. In the past, it was strongly supported by the natural sciences, especially the classical physics. However, it had been challenged by quantum theory in the modern natural sciences in the 30s and 50s of this century. As a result, philosophers (including scientists) thought that it would disappear in science and philosophy with the emergence of quantum theory. actually not. Quantum theory does not mean negating causality, but removing the components of mechanical determinism in the concept of causality. Mario Bunge, a prominent Canadian philosopher and leading contemporary philosopher of contemporary philosophy, looks very keenly