A Comparison of Nine Counterfactual Theories of Causation Using Seven Examples.
Philosophy of Science
Vytautas Grenda
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania
Published 2009-01-01
https://doi.org/10.15388/Problemos.2009.0.1937
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Keywords

singular causation
counterfactuals
backup causes
overdetermination

How to Cite

Grenda, V. (2009) “A Comparison of Nine Counterfactual Theories of Causation Using Seven Examples”., Problemos, 76, pp. 134–149. doi:10.15388/Problemos.2009.0.1937.

Abstract

The article compares and evaluates nine last-decade counterfactual theories of singular causation, which were either created or inspired by David Lewis, Joseph Y. Halpern and Judea Pearl and presented in the texts of six other authors. Some differences between those theories that have not yet been described in literature are shown in the article. It is argued that the majority of those theories analyze intuitively similar examples in different ways. In that respect, those theories impose distinctions which, according to the folk theory of causation, are (and should be) absent.

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