Grounding in the image of causation

Philosophical Studies 173 (1):49-100 (2016)
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Grounding is often glossed as metaphysical causation, yet no current theory of grounding looks remotely like a plausible treatment of causation. I propose to take the analogy between grounding and causation seriously, by providing an account of grounding in the image of causation, on the template of structural equation models for causation

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Jonathan Schaffer
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