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Triggering and Structuring Causes
In Timothy O'Connor & Constantine Sandis (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Action. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 139–144 (2010)
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This chapter contains sections titled: A Triggering Causal Explanation A Structuring Causal Explanation Further reading.Author's Profile
triggering and structuring causes Causal explanations are context‐sensitive Triggering causes give rise to regularities C is the triggering cause of E, one can think of the structuring cause of E as a (triggering) cause of those standing conditions plants changing color ‐ as their flowering season progresses explanation of behavior, not supervening upon system ‐ whose behavior is being explained triggering causal explanation structuring causal explanation
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