Causation and Counterfactuals

John Collins, Ned Hall (Harvard College), L. A. Paul (University Of Arizona)

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Bradford Books
25 June 2004

Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge

Series: Representation and Mind series

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.

Edited by: John Collins, Ned Hall (Harvard College), L. A. Paul (University Of Arizona)
Imprint: Bradford Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 191mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 771g
ISBN: 9780262532563
ISBN 10: 0262532565
Series: Representation and Mind series
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 25 June 2004
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

John Collins is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. Ned Hall is Associate Professor of Philosophy at MIT. L. A. Paul is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona and Research Fellow at the Australian National University.

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John Collins, Ned Hall (Harvard College), L. A. Paul (University Of Arizona)

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