Causation and contrast classes

Northcott, Robert (2008) Causation and contrast classes. Philosophical Studies 139 (1), pp. 111-123. ISSN 0031-8116.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11098-007-9105-0

Abstract

I argue that causation is a contrastive relation: c-rather-than-C* causes e-rather-than-E*, where C* and E* are contrast classes associated respectively with actual events c and e. I explain why this is an improvement on the traditional binary view, and develop a detailed definition. It turns out that causation is only well defined in ‘uniform’ cases, where either all or none of the members of C* are related appropriately to members of E*.

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Item Type:	Article
Keyword(s) / Subject(s):	Causation, Causal judgment, Contrast classes, Context, Uniformity
School:	Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies
Depositing User:	Administrator
Date Deposited:	28 May 2013 12:42
Last Modified:	02 Aug 2023 17:04
URI:	https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/7047

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