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108Simultaneous Causation and Causal ChainsAnalysis 45 (2). 1985.A standard objection to the thesis that all causation is simultaneous causation is that this claim rules out temporally extended causal chains. Defenders of universal simultaneous causation have suggested two replies: deny the supposed incompatibility between simultaneous causation and causal chains or deny the existence of causal chains. In this paper, I argue that neither type of defense of universal causation against this objection is plausible
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59Are Workers Forced to Work?Canadian Journal of Philosophy 19 (4). 1989.G. A. Cohen, in his ‘The Structure of Proletarian Unfreedom,’ addresses the classical Marxist claim that workers are forced to sell their labour power under capitalism. This claim has been the object of much debate and controversy. Cohen brings his very considerable analytical skills to bear on this question with the result that he supports, in distinctive but non-conflicting ways, both sides of the controversy. On Cohen’s analysis this claim is ambiguous, i.e., the term ‘proletariat’ has two im…Read more
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89Motion, causation, and the causal theory of identityAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 69 (2). 1991.This Article does not have an abstract
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30The system-property theory of goal-directed processesPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 14 (4): 497-504. 1984.
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33Causation and causal factualsErkenntnis 25 (1). 1986.Martin bunzl in "causal factuals" ("erkenntnis" 21, 1984) attempts to adapt and improve upon an approach to causation associated with the counterfactual theory of causation. Bunzl proposes to use possible world semantics to analyze causal sentences without reference to counterfactuals. In this paper I argue that bunzl's analysis is subject to problem cases which bear a close resemblance to those which plague counterfactual theory
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62Trope persistence and temporary external relationsAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 76 (3). 1998.This Article does not have an abstract
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24Cohen, Exploitation, and TheftDialogue 26 (2): 299-. 1987.G. A. Cohen in “More on Exploitation and the Labour Theory of Value” defends the thesis that the Marxist charge of exploitation against the capitalist cannot be supported by way of the labour theory of value. He suggests an alternative, non-labour-theoretic argument for this charge which depends on premises he takes to be more obvious than the labour theory of value. Cohen claims that his argument is the only way a Marxist couldjustify attributions of “exploitation” to the capitalist, if any suc…Read more
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76Spatial relations between universalsAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 80 (1). 2002.This Article does not have an abstract
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127Personal identity and the r-relation: Reconciliation through cohabitationAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 73 (3): 337-346. 1995.This Article does not have an abstract
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Counterfactual theories, preemption, and persistenceIn Phil Dowe & Paul Noordhof (eds.), Cause and Chance: Causation in an Indeterministic World, Routledge. 2003.
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84The causal argument against natural class trope nominalismPhilosophical Studies 107 (2). 2002.In this paper, I consider an objection to ``natural class''trope nominalism, the view that a trope's nature isdetermined by its membership in a natural class of tropes.The objection is that natural class trope nominalismis inconsistent with causes' being efficacious invirtue of having tropes of a certain type. I arguethat if natural class trope nominalism is combinedwith property counterpart theory, then this objectioncan be rebutted.
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136Causation and persistence: a theory of causationOxford University Press. 1997.Ehring shows the inadequacy of received theories of causation, and, introducing conceptual devices of his own, provides a wholly new account of causation as the persistence over time of individual properties, or "tropes.".
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