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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (4): 639–641.
Published: 01 October 2001
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tion—causation—that is the target of philosophical inquiry. In Causality, one
finds definitions of causal effect, causal relevance, total effect, direct effect,
actual cause, contributing cause, and so on: the ‘Causality’ of Pearl’s title does
not name some specific relation, but rather an entire...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (1): 45–96.
Published: 01 January 2021
... structural equations token causation actual causation counterfactuals References Andreas, Holger, and Mario Günther. 2018. “A Ramsey Test Analysis of Causation for Causal Models.” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. Published ahead of print, December 10. doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axy074...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (3): 371–398.
Published: 01 July 2018
... Pearl 2000 ). η d shares this property with Icard, Kominsky, and Knobe's (2017) measure of actual causation. How strongly does C cause the conjunction of two effects— E 1 ∧ E 2 —when C affects only one of them positively, and the other effect (say, E 2 ) is independent...
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The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (4): 495–532.
Published: 01 October 2007
.... I take
the term ‘token causation’ to be fairly standard; ‘singular causation’ and
‘actual causation’ are also fairly common; just plain ‘causation’ is doubt-
less the most common term of all. By using ‘token causation’ rather than
‘causation’ simpliciter, I deliberately suggest...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (4): 550–554.
Published: 01 October 2018
...) into their views. Other forms of actualism are overly schematic and do not give the particular details of the “actual sequence” in question. Carolina Sartorio fruitfully enters the debate at this juncture. In Causation and Free Will , Sartorio uses the metaphysics of causation in the service of fleshing out...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (4): 614–619.
Published: 01 October 2021
.... The ladder’s being opaque doesn’t seem to figure in the causal history of the electrocution, even if we have full knowledge of this case and think harder about it. As far as I see it, the best response is to give up Lewis’s simple counterfactual theory of causation. There are several ways to develop a more...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (3): 327–358.
Published: 01 July 2005
... flowers caused my flowers to wilt.
Second, absence causation is theoretically problematic. What exactly do
negative nominals such as ‘the gardener’s not watering my flowers’
denote? There are three main options: (i) a nonactual event: a merely
possible event of a watering; (ii) an actual fact...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (2): 189–214.
Published: 01 April 2013
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Counterfactual dependence is the relation that obtains between
two actual events X and Y just in case, if X hadn’t occurred, Y wouldn’t
have occurred (in that case we say that Y counterfactually depends on X).
The starting point of a counterfactual theory of causation is the obser-
vation that, at least...
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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (1): 1–50.
Published: 01 January 2006
... actuality or at least as
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Sensitive and Insensitive Causation
less appropriate for the assessment of sensitivity.7 In the nose-scratching
case, at least part of the reason why we regard the causation as sensitive
is that the bottle shattering...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (3): 361–396.
Published: 01 July 2001
.... Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press. Collins, J., N. Hall, and L. Paul, eds. Forthcoming. Causation and Counterfactuals. Cambridge: MIT Press. Dowe, P. 1999 . “The Conserved Quantity Theory of Causation and Chance Raising.” Philosophy of Science 66 (Proceedings): S486 -S501...
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (2): 203–248.
Published: 01 April 2004
... of creaturely causation actually has an
advantage in accounting for these passages expressing spontaneity.56
As the fourth quote (from L, 599) states, Leibniz claims that the action
proper to the soul is perception. How are we to understand this claim
that perception is the proper action of a creature...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (4): 483–538.
Published: 01 October 2012
... that the rewards were reserved
for the irrational.”
I am not sure whether anyone actually thumps the table to this
dialectical end in the case of chance. But many people, including Lewis,
staunchly defend what I take to be its analogue in the case of causation:
that is, orthodox two-boxing. The full set...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (3): 419–422.
Published: 01 July 2003
...David Robb Douglas Ehring, Causation and Persistence: A Theory of Causation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 191. Cornell University 2003 BOOK REVIEWS
animalist has nothing to say about the second issue but offers a theory of the
first...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (1): 136–140.
Published: 01 January 2017
... study of the aspects of reality, such as kindhood, lawhood, causal power, and causation, which impose order on the world and make our scientific disciplines possible . . . and also the study of the metaphysical relationship between the various scientific disciplines” (14). The editors explicitly rule...
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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (1): 79–103.
Published: 01 January 2006
... that involves actually making a difference.
Downward causation that made a difference would be nonredundant
causation. It would do something that wasn’t already going to happen
anyway. So the mental would have to be able to violate the laws of phys-
ics, or the laws of physics would have to be different...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (2): 241–286.
Published: 01 April 2016
..., the miraculous divergence from actual history would have taken place somewhat earlier than t . And there is nothing independently plausible about the thesis that short-range counterfactual dependence of facts about earlier times on facts about later times need not involve backward causation, whereas long...
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The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (1): 102–105.
Published: 01 January 2024
... that focusing exclusively on what is part of, or involved in, “our concept” of causation will lead us to overlook features of causal cognition of vital importance. Woodward’s working example is invariance : roughly, the extent to which a given causal relationship holds across a wide variety of actual...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (3): 469–472.
Published: 01 July 2001
.... The first part of this wide-ranging and insightful book
sets up and diagnoses the problem with action theory, the second part
introduces dynamical systems theory and shows how its associated notions of
causation can be applied to human action, and the third part introduces a
new model...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (2): 205–229.
Published: 01 April 2014
... counterfactuals can yield an appropriate notion of causal redundancy and argues for a negative answer. Second, it examines how this issue bears on the mental causation debate. In particular, it considers the argument that the overdetermination problem simply does not arise on a dependency conception of causation...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (4): 565–591.
Published: 01 October 2010
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According to Watkins, the core idea in Kant’s mature concept of
causation is actually a holdover from the pre-Critical period. It is the
notion of a real ground or causal power that is non-Humean in that it
does not reduce to regularities or counterfactual dependencies among
events or states and non...
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