Abstract

The paper outlines an analysis of token causation. It containsreasons for the choice of event tokens and a list of properties of causal relations. After defining the notion event it is shown, in which form classicalphilosophical problems arise and how they can be solved: Causality is interpreted as an second order property of first order relations. Temporal ordercan be induced from causal order. Token causation does not involve neither any kind of necessity, nor probability. Causal laws are generalizationson sentences about token causation by quantifying over event types. Twoexplications of Causal law are suggested, differing in the ability of allowingfor exceptions