PhilPeople

Shenzhen University

Distinguished Professor

Areas of Specialization

Normativity and Naturalism

Reasons and Rationality

Explanation of Action

Areas of Interest

Metaphysics and Epistemology

Reasons and Rationality

Normativity and Naturalism

Explanation of Action

A causal theory of counterfactuals
Eric Hiddleston

Noûs 39 (4). 2005.

I develop an account of counterfactual conditionals using “causal models”, and argue that this account is preferable to the currently standard account in terms of “similarity of possible worlds” due to David Lewis and Robert Stalnaker. I diagnose the attraction of counterfactual theories of causation, and argue that it is illusory.