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175Rescued from the rubbish Bin: Lewis on causationPhilosophy of Science 71 (5): 1107-1114. 2004.Lewis's work on causation was governed by a familiar methodological approach: the aim was to come up with an account of causation that would recover, in as elegant a fashion as possible, all of our firm “pre‐theoretic” intuitions about hypothetical cases. That methodology faces an obvious challenge, in that it is not clear why anyone not interested in the semantics of the English word “cause” should care about its results. Better to take a different approach, one which treats our intuitions abou…Read more
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273Causation and Ceteris Paribus LawsThe Harvard Review of Philosophy 13 (1): 80-99. 2005.But of all this more later. To help fix ideas, let’s start with a concrete example
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1037Two concepts of causationIn John Collins, Ned Hall & Laurie Paul (eds.), Causation and Counterfactuals, Mit Press. pp. 225-276. 2004.
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119Comments on Woodward, "Making Things Happen" (review)History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 28 (4). 2006.
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423Two mistakes about credence and chanceAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 82 (1). 2004.David Lewis's influential work on the epistemology and metaphysics of objective chance has convinced many philosophers of the central importance of the following two claims: First, it is a serious cost of reductionist positions about chance (such as that occupied by Lewis) that they are, apparently, forced to modify the Principal Principle--the central principle relating objective chance to rational subjective probability--in order to avoid contradiction. Second, it is a perhaps more serious cos…Read more
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37Review of Causality and Explanation by Wesley C. Salmon (review)Philosophy of Science 66 (3): 497-498. 1999.
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73Causation and the sciencesIn Steven French & Juha Saatsi (eds.), Continuum Companion to the Philosophy of Science, Continuum. pp. 96--119. 2011.
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