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Causation and persistence: a theory of causation
New York: Oxford University Press (1997)
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Ehring shows the inadequacy of received theories of causation, and, introducing conceptual devices of his own, provides a wholly new account of causation as the persistence over time of individual properties, or "tropes.".Author's Profile
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