Causation and Counterfactuals

Name: Causation and Counterfactuals
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ISBN: 9780262532563

ISBN-10: 0262532565

ISBN-13: 9780262532563

Edition: 2004

Authors: John Collins, Ned Hall, L. A. Paul, Ned Hall

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One philosophical approach to causation sees counterfactual dependence as the key to the explanation of causal facts: for example, events c (the cause) and e (the effect) both occur, but had c not occurred, e would not have occurred either. The counterfactual analysis of causation became a focus of philosophical debate after the 1973 publication of the late David Lewis's groundbreaking paper, "Causation," which argues against the previously accepted "regularity" analysis and in favor of what he called the "promising alternative" of the counterfactual analysis. Thirty years after Lewis's paper, this book brings together some of the most important recent work connecting--or, in some cases,…

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List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 6/25/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 7.05" wide x 9.06" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English

L. A. Paul is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona and Research Fellow at the Australian National University.



Contributors



Counterfactuals and Causation: History, Problems, and Prospects




Trumping Preemption




Causation as Influence




Preemptive Prevention




Advertisement for a Sketch of an Outline of a Prototheory of Causation




Difference-making in Context




Causation and the Price of Transitivity




Aspect Causation




Two Concepts of Causation




Void and Object




Causing and Nothingness




For Facts as Causes and Effects




Preempting Preemption




Causes, Contrasts, and the Nontransitivity of Causation




Causation: Probabilistic and Counterfactual Analyses




A Counterfactual Analysis of Indeterministic Causation




Do All and Only Causes Raise the Probabilities of Effects?




Causation, Counterfactuals, and the Third Factor




Going through the Open Door Again: Counterfactual versus Singularist Theories of Causation



References


General Index


Index of Examples