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Causation and Counterfactuals (Paperback)
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Causation and Counterfactuals (Paperback)
Series: Representation and Mind series
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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,
disputing the connection between-counterfactuals and causation,
including the complete version of Lewis's Whitehead lectures,
"Causation as Influence," a major reworking of his original paper.
Also included is a more recent essay by Lewis, "Void and Object,"
on causation by omission. Several of the essays first appeared in a
special issue of the Journal of Philosophy, but most, including the
unabridged version of "Causation as Influence," are published for
the first time or in updated forms. Other topics considered include
the "trumping" of one event over another in determining causation;
de facto dependence; challenges to the transitivity of causation;
the possibility that entities other than events are the fundamental
causal relata; the distinction between dependence and production in
accounts of causation; the distinction between causation and causal
explanation; the context-dependence of causation; probabilistic
analyses of causation; and a singularist theory of causation.
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