Causation and contrast classes |
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Authors: | Robert Northcott |
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Affiliation: | (1) Philosophy, University of Missouri-St Louis, 599 Lucas Hall (MC 73), One University Blvd, St Louis, MO 63121-4499, USA |
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Abstract: | I argue that causation is a contrastive relation: c-rather-than-C* causes e-rather-than-E*, where C* and E* are contrast classes associated respectively with actual events c and e. I explain why this is an improvement on the traditional binary view, and develop a detailed definition. It turns out that causation is only well defined in ‘uniform’ cases, where either all or none of the members of C* are related appropriately to members of E*. |
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Keywords: | Causation Causal judgment Contrast classes Context Uniformity |
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