Absences and Late Preemption
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20142679 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Oisín Deery (0000-0003-1714-5639, University of British Columbia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 309-325 |
| Publication date | 2013-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theoria (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-5825 • E-ISSN: 1755-2567 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/theo.12007 |
| OpenAlex | W2116606867 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
I focus on token, deterministic causal claims as they feature in causal explanations. Adequately handling absences is difficult for most causal theories, including theories of causal explanation. Yet so is adequately handling cases of late preemption. The best account of absence‐causal claims as they appear in causal explanations is Jonathan S chaffer's quaternary, contrastive account. Yet S chaffer's account cannot handle preemption. The account that best handles late preemption is James Woodward's interventionist account. Yet W oodward's account is inadequate when it comes to absences. I propose an account that handles both absences and preemption by transposing Schaffer's account into an interventionist framework
Causal model · Economics · Mathematical economics · Preemption · Statistics · Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies · Computer Science · Mathematics · Philosophy and History of Science · Philosophy and Theoretical Science
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |