The Causation Recipe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9688642 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yehudah Freundlich (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 472-484 |
| Publication date | 1977-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0012217300045522 |
| OpenAlex | W2127846897 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
In a Recent article [9], Alexander Rosenberg attacks the “manipulative” view of causation as being unilluminating and as being beset with difficulties. As a proponent of that view [3], I have felt it necessary to take up cudgels in its defence. Rosenberg's criticisms are directed at Gasking's version of this view [5]. Gasking's recipe for causation is, “one says ‘ A causes B ’ in cases where one could produce an event of the A sort as a means to producing one of the B sort” (p. 485). Here it is taken for granted that we have general manipulative techniques for producing events of the A sort and that this is implicitly assumed when one speaks of A as a cause. There is one qualification to this formula for causes which arises from the necessity for individuating processes, namely, that, for A to be the cause of B , it must not always lead to B (for then the technique for producing A would also be a B -producing one), but only in special cases
Arithmetic · Causation · Epistemology · Event (particle physics) · Recipe · sort · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · History · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Philosophy and Theoretical Science
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1980 - 2017 (38) |
| Highly cited | No |