Causation and Counterfactuals: Lewis' Treatment Reconsidered

Dialogue 18 (2):209-219 (1979)
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In this paper I bring together and discuss claims that David Lewis has made in Counterfactuals, and in “Causation,” and explore a number of difficulties which the views of these two works make for each other. If these difficulties are as serious as I suggest, they will require revision or rejection of the view of causation that Lewis defends.

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Causation.David Lewis - 1973 - Journal of Philosophy 70 (17):556-567.
Causation, nomic subsumption, and the concept of event.Jaegwon Kim - 1973 - Journal of Philosophy 70 (8):217-236.
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