Causation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23705114 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Lewis (0000-0002-0253-5530), Dave Lewis (0000-0002-3503-4644, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Pages | 159-213 |
| Publication date | 1987-06-11 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Philosophical Papers Volume II (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressNew York (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/0195036468.003.0006 |
| OpenAlex | W4238517244 |
| ISBN | 9780195036466 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 40 |
Argues for an analysis of causation in terms counterfactual dependence between events. It shows how this analysis works to distinguish genuine causes from effects, epiphenomena, and preempted potential causes. The paper includes six postscripts, dealing with further issues related to the analysis proposed, such as indeterminism, causation by omission, and redundant causation.
Causation · Counterfactual thinking · Determinism · Epistemology · Indeterminism · Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science
The red and the real
Consequentialism and Indeterminacy
Act Consequentialism and the No-Difference Challenge
Blame as Attention
Graded causation and moral responsibility
Causal Proportionality as an Ontic and Epistemic Concept
What Killed Your Plant? Profligate Omissions and Weak Centering
On the Relation Between Collective Responsibility and Collective Duties
Scientific understanding as narrative intelligibility
Counterfactual theories of causation and the problem of large causes
Difference-making and the control relation that grounds responsibility in hierarchical groups
A good cause
Responses to Herman Cappelen and Jennifer Nado
Indeterminacy and collective harms
Preemption and a counterfactual analysis of divine causation
How to Be Morally Responsible for Another’s Free Intentional Action
Traces d'objectivité. Causalité et probabilités en physique quantique
Causation in epidemiology
On individuals in branching histories
Estimating degrees of causal contribution
A generalized probabilistic theory of causal relevance
The categories of causation
Trumping and contrastive causation
What does causality have to do with necessity
Causation, absences, and the Prince of Wales
Counterfactual reasoning within physical theories
A simple argument for downward causation
The Future Similarity Objection Revisited
Is there causation in fundamental physics? New insights from process matrices and quantum causal modelling
Does Anything Hold the Universe Together
Causal foundationalism, physical causation, and difference-making
(A new paradigm for) the problem of the many
Relevance first
Strengthening the exclusion argument
Causation and cognition
Probabilistic Causation and Causal Processes
Nomic Dependence and Causation
Overdetermination and causal connections
Contrastive Causation
A Probabilistic Analysis of Causation
| Citations per year | 1.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1989 - 2025 (37) |
| Highly cited | No |