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130Old Problems for the Agency Theory of Causal DiscourseErkenntnis 84 (4): 939-951. 2019.Price’s :157–176, 1991; 44:187–203, 1993 ; 2007, 2017) agency theory of causation has takes itself to provide a use-theory of our causal discourse. The theory’s aim is to describe the rules implicit to our linguistic behaviour when we describe things in causal terms. According to this theory, the rules governing our use of the concept of causation are based on our perspective as agents and our associated experiences of manipulating events. I argue that the observed relation between agency and ou…Read more
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8Resolving Vagueness in the Ordering of WorldsProceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 62 147-152. 2018.Recently, David Lewis’ counterfactual theory of causation has been attacked by context-relativists, who point to a number of intuitively absurd consequences of Lewis’ view – e.g. that my birth is a cause of my death – in order to argue that whether or not an event c is a cause of some distinct event e varies relative to certain contextual factors. Not all ; Schaffer ; Maslen ; Northcott ) agree on how contexts should be fixed; but all argue that context-relative analyses better account for our i…Read more
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University of LeedsPost-doctoral Fellow
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Metaphilosophy |
Metaphysics |