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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (1): 79–103.
Published: 01 January 2006
...John Gibbons Cornell University 2006 Mental Causation
without Downward Causation
John Gibbons
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
The problem of causal exclusion is that an intuitive response to an intuitive...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (3): 419–422.
Published: 01 July 2003
...David Robb Cornell University 2003 Douglas Ehring, Causation and Persistence: A Theory of Causation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 191. 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 (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 (2017) 126 (3): 393–398.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Jonathan Cottrell De Pierris Graciela , Ideas, Evidence, and Method: Hume's Skepticism and Naturalism Concerning Knowledge and Causation . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2015 . xv + 318 pp . © 2017 by Cornell University 2017 This is a rich, ambitious, and original study...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (4): 550–554.
Published: 01 October 2018
... view or approach. First, Sartorio's view is committed to profligate causation by absences of reasons. It is well known that a commitment to absence causation is vulnerable to the problem of profligate omissions : not only does a plant's death counterfactually depend on my failure to water...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (3): 327–358.
Published: 01 July 2005
...Jonathan Schaffer Cornell University 2005 Achinstein, Peter. 1975 . Causation, Transparency, and Emphasis. Canadian Journal of Philosophy 5 : 1 -23. Anscombe, G. E. M. 1969 . Causality and Extensionality. Journal of Philosophy 66 : 152 -59. Armstrong, David. 1999...
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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (1): 1–50.
Published: 01 January 2006
... 27 : 76 -105. Beebee, H. 2004 . “Causing and Nothingness.” In Causation and Counterfactuals , ed. J. Collins, N. Hall, and L. Paul, 291 -308. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Block, N. 1995 . “How Heritability Misleads about Race.” Cognition 56 : 99 -128. Cheng, P. W. 1997 . “From...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (4): 565–591.
Published: 01 October 2010
...Andrew Chignell; Derk Pereboom This essay highlights the important contributions Watkins's books have made to our understanding of theories about causation developed in eighteenth-century German philosophy and by Kant in particular. Watkins provides a convincing argument that central to Kant's...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (4): 483–538.
Published: 01 October 2012
..., with respect to objective causation. The essay begins with Newcomb problems, which turn on an apparent tension between two principles of choice: roughly, a principle sensitive to the causal features of the relevant situation, and a principle sensitive only to evidential factors. Two-boxers give priority...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (1): 125–128.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Colin Chamberlain; Jeffrey K. McDonough © 2013 by Cornell University 2013 Nadler Steven , Occasionalism: Causation Among the Cartesians . New York : Oxford University Press , 2011 . xi +215 pp . BOOK REVIEWS
Paula Gottlieb, The Virtue...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (1): 45–96.
Published: 01 January 2021
...J. Dmitri Gallow This article provides a theory of causation in the causal modeling framework. In contrast to most of its predecessors, this theory is model-invariant in the following sense: if the theory says that C caused (didn’t cause) E in a causal model, M , then it will continue to say...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (2): 335–338.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Daniel Rubio Pruss Alexander R. , Infinity, Causation, and Paradox . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2018 . vi + 207 pp . © 2021 by Cornell University, 2021 In Infinity, Causation, and Paradox , Alexander Pruss undertakes a sweeping defense of the metaphysical thesis...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (4): 614–619.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Lei Zhong [email protected] Kroedel Thomas , Mental Causation: A Counterfactual Theory . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2020 x + 224 pp. © 2021 by Cornell University 2021 In this book, Thomas Kroedel develops a novel account of mental causation...
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The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (1): 102–105.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Ned Hall Still, some perspective: while the problems in chapter 2 create a kind of barrier to entry, they in no way undermine the impressive case Woodward makes for his functionalist approach. My own view, to put it bluntly, is that philosophers working on causation should just stop doing...
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The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (4): 495–532.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Christopher Hitchcock Cornell University 2007 Barker, S. 2004 . “Analyzing Chancy Causation without Appeal to Chance-Raising.” In Dowe and Noordhof 2004, 120 -37. Beebee, H. 2004 . “Causing and Nothingness.” In Collins, Hall, and Paul 2004, 291 -308. Björnsson, G. 2007...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (3): 361–396.
Published: 01 July 2001
..., 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. Eells, E. 1991 . Probabilistic...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (2): 255–258.
Published: 01 April 2015
... that the most important contribution of Swinburne's book concerns his defense of mental causation and free will (as understood by incompatibilists) from the numerous scientific sources of skepticism that have arisen of late. My sense is that the primary reason that philosophers reject dualism, libertarianism...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (2): 189–214.
Published: 01 April 2013
... . “ Making a Difference .” Social Theory and Practice 37 : 181 – 94 . Lewis David . 1986 . “ Causation .” In Philosophical Papers 2 , 159 – 213 . New York : Oxford University Press . ———. 2000 . “ Causation as Influence .” Journal of Philosophy 97 : 182 – 97 . McKenna...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (4): 639–641.
Published: 01 October 2001
.... For philosophers of science with a serious interest in causal
modeling, Causality is simply mandatory reading. Chapter 2, in particular,
addresses many of the issues familiar from works such as Causation, Prediction
and Search by Peter Spirtes, Clark Glymour, and Richard Scheines (New York:
Springer-Verlag...
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