Add to ORKGThere are a wide variety of theories of causation available in the philosophical literature. For the philosopher working in philosophy of mind, who makes use of causal concepts, what is to be made of this embarrassment of riches? By considering a variety of theoretical perspectives, she can discover which principles or assumptions about causation are robust, and which hold only within particular frameworks. In particular, she should be suspicious when the different premises in an argument can only be made true by shifting between different theories of causation. I illustrate these themes using the causal exclusion argument
A number of writers, myself included, have recently argued that an “interventionist” treatment of...
Theories of causation in philosophy ask what makes causal claims true and establish the so-called tr...
Philosophical theories summarized here include regularity and necessity theories from Hume to the pr...
There are a wide variety of theories of causation available in the philosophical literature. For th...
This is a pre-print of an article published in Philosophical Studies 165 (1):29-47 (2013). The final...
Causation is extrinsic. What an event causes depends not just on its own nature and the laws, but on...
[Introduction] Causation is a topic of perennial philosophical concern. As well as being of intrins...
I claim that causation is a basic feature of the world, of which no substantial philosophical theory...
Theories of causation in philosophy ask what makes causal claims true and establish so called truth ...
30 p.The aim of this paper is to provide an account of causation that is compatible with both common...
Many contemporary philosophers are drawn to a doctrine of causal fundamentalism. This doctrine has ...
In philosophy of science, it is still a mainstream practice to search for the ‘truth’ about fundamen...
The past few decades have seen much interesting work, both within and outside philosophy, on causati...
Theories of causation in philosophy ask what makes causal claims true and establish the so-called tr...
In philosophy of science, it is still a mainstream practice to search for the ‘truth ’ about fundame...
A number of writers, myself included, have recently argued that an “interventionist” treatment of...
Theories of causation in philosophy ask what makes causal claims true and establish the so-called tr...
Philosophical theories summarized here include regularity and necessity theories from Hume to the pr...
There are a wide variety of theories of causation available in the philosophical literature. For th...
This is a pre-print of an article published in Philosophical Studies 165 (1):29-47 (2013). The final...
Causation is extrinsic. What an event causes depends not just on its own nature and the laws, but on...
[Introduction] Causation is a topic of perennial philosophical concern. As well as being of intrins...
I claim that causation is a basic feature of the world, of which no substantial philosophical theory...
Theories of causation in philosophy ask what makes causal claims true and establish so called truth ...
30 p.The aim of this paper is to provide an account of causation that is compatible with both common...
Many contemporary philosophers are drawn to a doctrine of causal fundamentalism. This doctrine has ...
In philosophy of science, it is still a mainstream practice to search for the ‘truth’ about fundamen...
The past few decades have seen much interesting work, both within and outside philosophy, on causati...
Theories of causation in philosophy ask what makes causal claims true and establish the so-called tr...
In philosophy of science, it is still a mainstream practice to search for the ‘truth ’ about fundame...
A number of writers, myself included, have recently argued that an “interventionist” treatment of...
Theories of causation in philosophy ask what makes causal claims true and establish the so-called tr...
Philosophical theories summarized here include regularity and necessity theories from Hume to the pr...