The Intransitivity of Causation Revealed in Equations and Graphs
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| ID | 23381237 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Christopher Hitchcock (0000-0002-2435-0713, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2001 |
| Volume | 98 |
| Fascículo | 6 |
| Páginas | 273 |
| Data de publicação | 2001-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | The Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0022-362X • E-ISSN: 1939-8549 |
| Editora | Philosophy Documentation Center (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2678432 |
| OpenAlex | W75331897 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 139 |
[Introduction] We live in exciting times. By 'we' I mean philosophers studying \nthe nature of causation. The past decade or so has \nwitnessed a flurry of philosophical activity aimed at cracking \nthis nut, and, surprisingly, real progress has been made. Two \ndevelopments are especially worthy of note. First, there has been a \nresurgence of interest in the counterfactual theory of causation, given \nits best-known formulation by David Lewis. Second, there has been \nincreasing philosophical interest in the techniques of causal modeling \ndeveloped and employed within fields such as econometrics, \nepidemiology, and artificial intelligence. These two developments \nhave been largely independent and addressed to different sorts of \nproblems. Work in the counterfactual tradition has been primarily \nconcerned with issues involving "token" or "singular" causation, while \nwork in the second tradition has tended to focus on issues concerning \n"type-level" or "general" causation.
Causation · Counterfactual conditional · Counterfactual thinking · Economics · Epistemology · Focus (optics) · Positive economics · Sociology · Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science
Causation, Coherence and Concepts
Explanations without causes and causes without reasons
A Criterion of Probabilistic Causation
Causal Models, Token Causation, and Processes
Cause and Norm
Nonreductive Physicalism and the Limits of the Exclusion Principle
Causal–explanatory pluralism
Causal Stability in Moral Contexts
Some Empirical Results Concerning Causal Learning and Representation
Invariance
Invariance Applied
The Normative and the Descriptive
Proportionality
Experimental Results Concerning Invariance
Methods for Investigating Causal Cognition
Theories of Causation
The Powers Metaphysic
A Minimal Metaphysics for Scientific Practice
Causality in Policy Studies
Mental Causation
The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945–2015
Non‐Teleological Explanations of Actions
Teleological Explanations of Actions
The Inherently Normative Nature of Action Explanations
Purposes, Causes, and Reasons Explanations
Explanations in Terms of the Agent's Reasoning
Causal Mechanisms
Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences
Making Things Happen
Grounding in the image of causation
Causal exclusion and the limits of proportionality
Causes and Explanations
Of Humean Bondage
Causes As Difference-Makers
A Communication‐First Account of Explanation
Reasons and Purposes
Plural Causes
Constitution, Non-Causal Explanation, and Demarcation
Structural Equations and Analysis of Dispositions
Causal Loops and Direct Self-Causation
Structural Injustice and Counterfactuals
A New Halpern-Pearl Definition of Actual Causality by Appealing to the Default World
Causes in Neuron Diagrams, and Testing Causal Reasoning in Large Language Models
A Regularity Theory of Causation
An Emergentist Approach to Phenomenal Causality
The blocker postulates for measures of voting power
On the Necessity of Priority Monism
Actual Causation and the Challenge of Purpose
Undetermined Choices, Luck and the Enhancement Problem
Causal Bayes Nets and Token-Causation
A Defence of Manipulationist Noncausal Explanation
The PSR and the Nature of Explanation
On the manipulator-focused response to manipulation cases
Bread prices and sea levels
Metaphysical explanations and the counterfactual theory of explanation
Expressivism about explanatory relevance
An event algebra for causal counterfactuals
A Lewisian regularity theory
Indeterminacy and collective harms
An explanatory idealist theory of grounding
Collective Actions, Individual Reasons, and the Metaphysics of Consequence
A simple definition of ‘intentionally’
Counterfactual thinking and recency effects in causal judgment
Three Kinds of Causal Indeterminacy
Interventionism and Non-Causal Dependence Relations
Essential Structure for Causal Models
Searching for causality in the wrong places
Studying asphyxiation in the lab
Causation
Origin Explanation
Absences and Late Preemption
How to Trace a Causal Process
Elicitory Structural Power and Agential Power
Type Causation, Underdeterministically
Subjective Causality
A Moral Defense of the ‘Moral Values’ Voter
The Non‐Occurrence of Events
Ceteris Paribus Laws and Minutis Rectis Laws
Decision, causality, and predetermination
Making models up
The Question of Iterated Causation
Grounding Entails Counterpossible Non‐Triviality
On the Phenomenon of “Dog‐Wise Arrangement”
Causes As Difference‐Makers For Processes
Against Counterfactual Miracles
Sensitive and Insensitive Causation
Interactionist zombies
Metaphysical laws and the directionality of grounding
Trumping and contrastive causation
A causal theory of confirmation for Bayesians
Grounding and a priori epistemology
Actual causation
Building low level causation out of high level causation
Transitivity and proportionality in causation
Explanatory fictions—for real
How (not) to judge a theory of causation
Pre-emption cases may support, not undermine, the counterfactual theory of causation
A simple argument for downward causation
A principled approach to defining actual causation
Comparative syllogism and counterfactual knowledge
| Obras citantes distintas | 139 |
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| Citações por ano | 5,56 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2001 - 2026 (26) |
| Velocidade de citação | current |
| Altamente citado | Sim |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 132 |