Reply to my critics

Pat Jackson, Fred Chernoff and Heikki Patomäki are scholars with deservedly distinguished reputations. They anchor three different approaches to cause and advocate them in thought-ful and intelligent ways. I offer a very different approach, one that shares some things in common with each of theirs, but differs from them in important ways. The reviewers are not quite sure what to make of my approach to cause, in large part because they are so committed to their own. They end up using their approaches to criticize mine, rather than evaluating it on its own terms