(1) The University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148, USA
Abstract:
Jonathan Schaffer introduced a new type of causal structure called ‘trumping’. According to Schaffer, trumping is a species
of causal preemption. Both Schaffer and I have argued that causation has a contrastive structure. In this paper, I analyze
the structure of trumping cases from the perspective of contrastive causation, and argue that the case is much more complex
than it first appears. Nonetheless, there is little reason to regard trumping as a species of causal preemption.