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    to Psychological Causation.Physical Causation - 2008 - In Kenneth S. Kendler & Josef Parnas, Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry: Explanation, Phenomenology, and Nosology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 71--184.
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  2. Kurt konollge.Elements of Commonsense Causation - 1996 - In J. Ezquerro A. Clark, Philosophy and Cognitive Science: Categories, Consciousness, and Reasoning. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 197.
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  3. Anti-thetic ideas-, Freud's early construct 35-, as opposite of intention 36 Being-, as identity other than body 32.Causation Cause - 1976 - In Joseph F. Rychlak, Dialectic: humanistic rationale for behavior and development. New York: S. Karger. pp. 2--152.
     
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    I will abbreviate the causal law, C causes E by C—> E. Notice that C and E are to be filled in by general terms, and not names of particulars; for example, Force causes motion or Aspinn relieves hendache. The generic law C causes E is not to be understood as a universally quantified law about particulars, even about.Ii Statistical Analyses Of Causation - 1999 - In Michael Tooley, Laws of nature, causation, and supervenience. New York: Garland. pp. 246.
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  5. Explanation Beyond Causation: Philosophical Perspectives on Non-Causal Explanations.Alexander Reutlinger & Juha Saatsi (eds.) - 2018 - Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
    Explanations are very important to us in many contexts: in science, mathematics, philosophy, and also in everyday and juridical contexts. But what is an explanation? In the philosophical study of explanation, there is long-standing, influential tradition that links explanation intimately to causation: we often explain by providing accurate information about the causes of the phenomenon to be explained. Such causal accounts have been the received view of the nature of explanation, particularly in philosophy of science, since the 1980s. However, philosophers (...)
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  6. The Interventionist Account of Causation and Non-causal Association Laws.Max Kistler - 2013 - Erkenntnis 78 (1):1-20.
    The key idea of the interventionist account of causation is that a variable A causes a variable B if and only if B would change if A were manipulated in the appropriate way. This paper raises two problems for Woodward's (2003) version of interventionism. The first is that the conditions it imposes are not sufficient for causation, because these conditions are also satisfied by non-causal relations of nomological dependence expressed in association laws. Such laws ground a relation of mutual manipulability (...)
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    Preemption in Singular Causation Judgments: A Computational Model.Simon Stephan & Michael R. Waldmann - 2018 - Topics in Cognitive Science 10 (1):242-257.
    The authors challenge the reigning “causal power framework” as an explanation for whether a particular outcome was actually caused by a specific potential cause. They test a new measure of causal attribution in two experiments by embedding the measure within the Structure Induction model of Singular Causation (SISC, Stephan & Waldmann, 2016).
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  8. Spinoza on Inherence, Causation, and Conception.Yitzhak Y. Melamed - 2012 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 50 (3):365-386.
    Spinoza’s philosophy is bold and rich in challenges to our “common-sense intuitions”, and insofar as it provides powerful arguments to motivate these challenges, I believe that we cannot ask for more. Bold and well-argued philosophy has the indispensable virtue of being able to unsettle and try us, to move us to reconsider what seems natural and obvious, and possibly even to change our most basic beliefs. Indeed, for those who seek to test – rather than confirm - their old and (...)
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  9. Trumping and contrastive causation.Christopher Hitchcock - 2011 - Synthese 181 (2):227 - 240.
    Jonathan Schaffer introduced a new type of causal structure called 'trumping'. According to Schaffer, trumping is a species of causal preemption. Both Schaffer and I have argued that causation has a contrastive structure. In this paper, I analyze the structure of trumping cases from the perspective of contrastive causation, and argue that the case is much more complex than it first appears. Nonetheless, there is little reason to regard trumping as a species of causal preemption.
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  10. Downward causation without foundations.Michel Bitbol - 2012 - Synthese 185 (2):233-255.
    Emergence is interpreted in a non-dualist framework of thought. No metaphysical distinction between the higher and basic levels of organization is supposed, but only a duality of modes of access. Moreover, these modes of access are not construed as mere ways of revealing intrinsic patterns of organization: They are supposed to be constitutive of them, in Kant’s sense. The emergent levels of organization, and the inter-level causations as well, are therefore neither illusory nor ontologically real: They are objective in the (...)
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  11. The role of causation in philosophical naturalism.Peter Menzies - 2002 - In D. Macarthur M. de Caro, The Claims of Naturalism. Harvard University Press.
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  12. Moral Freedom Reconciled with Causation.Henry Travis - 1865
     
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    The role of catalysis in biological causation.Edgar J. Witzemann - 1943 - Philosophy of Science 10 (3):176-183.
    The last two words of the title for this essay are taken from a paper by R. S. Lillie, and the first phrase is also taken by implication from the same source. The study of chemical phenomena in life has progressed far enough so that underlying chemical causes, involved in Professor Lillie's picture of Biological Causation, may in part be discussed in general terms, and apart from the mass of detail known about the agents and processes involved. Moreover, this mass (...)
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  14. Reason and causation in Davidson's Theory of Action Explanation.Carlos Moya Espí - 1998 - Critica 30 (89):29-43.
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    CHAPTER 2: Causation.Paul Guyer - 2008 - In Knowledge, Reason, and Taste: Kant's Response to Hume. Princeton University Press. pp. 71-123.
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    Saving Mental Causation?Ryan Takenaga - 2000 - Philosophia Christi 2 (2):263-270.
  17. The Elements of Causation.James Andrew Fulton - 1970 - Dissertation, Brown University
     
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    Deterministic Causation.Wolfgang Spohn - 2001 - In Wolfgang Spohn, Marion Ledwig & Michael Esfeld, Current Issues in Causation. Mentis. pp. 21-46.
    This paper is the most complete presentation of my views on deterministic causation. It develops the deterministic theory in perfect parallel to my theory of probabilistic causation and thus unites the two aspects. It also argues that the theory presented is superior to all regularity and all counterfactual theories of causation.
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  19. The Probabilistic Account of Causation.Esteban Céspedes - 2016 - In Esteban Céspedes, Causal Overdetermination and Contextualism. Cham: Springer.
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    Whatever Happened to ’Efficient Causation’?Lewis S. Ford - 2005 - Process Studies 34 (1):117-131.
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    (1 other version)The fourfold way: Determinism, moral responsibility, and aristotelean causation.M. E. Grenander - 1982 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 3 (3):375-396.
    Thomas Szasz''s emphasis on goal-oriented behavior and moral responsibility has raised profound theoretical questions about an ancient and enduring problem in philosophy, the relationships amongfree will, determinism, and moral responsibility. Two early thinkers, Jonathan Edwards and Aristotle, have both contributed to an understanding of this dilemma. Edwards (1754) demonstrated that the concept of man as a moral agent and the doctrine of philosophical necessity are inextricably intertwined, in opposition to the tenets of contingency, moral indifference, and self-determining volition. However, his (...)
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    The humist doctrine of causation.William W. Carlile - 1896 - Philosophical Review 5 (2):113-134.
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    When correlation and causation coincide.Sui Huang - 2014 - Bioessays 36 (1):1-2.
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    Sartorio, Carolina. Causation and Free Will.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 208. $65.00.Stephen Kearns - 2017 - Ethics 127 (3):802-806.
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    On Marx and Causation.Corliss Lamont - 1970 - Science and Society 34 (2):236 - 237.
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  26. Free agency, causation and action explanation.E. J. Lowe - 2009 - In Constantine Sandis, New essays on the explanation of action. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
  27. D. Lewis on Causation.J. Pal - 1999 - Indian Philosophical Quarterly 26 (4):495-502.
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    (1 other version)Foley on causation and rationality.Scott Sturgeon - 1986 - Analysis 46 (4):62-64.
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  29. Some Reflections on Causation in the Law.Judith Jarvis Thomson - 2008 - In Matthew H. Kramer, The legacy of H.L.A. Hart: legal, political, and moral philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press.
     
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    Holistic Social Causation and Explanation.Raimo Tuomela - 2011 - In Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao Gonzalo, Thomas Uebel, Stephan Hartmann & Marcel Weber, Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation. Springer. pp. 305--318.
  31. Leibniz, gottried Wilhelm — B. causation.Laurence Carlin - 2008 - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
     
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    Mind–Body Connection and Causation: Conceptual and Experimental Advances.Pierre Uzan - 2021 - Foundations of Science 26 (4):901-915.
    This article deals with the difficulties of the yet intuitive causal interpretation of the mind–body connection emphasized by metaphysical, theoretical and experimental considerations. It shows that a decisive contribution to determining the nature of this connection can be provided experimentally. This experimental test is designed within the framework of a general systems theory capable of representing the concepts of complementarity and entanglement that are involved in the description of the mind–body connection.
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  33. Turning Negative Causation Back to Positive.Peter Fazekas & George Kampis - manuscript
    In contemporary literature, the fact that there is negative causation is the primary motivation for rejecting the physical connection view, and arguing for alternative accounts of causation. In this paper we insist that such a conclusion is too fast. We present two frameworks, which help the proponent of the physical connection view to resist the anti-connectionist conclusion. According to the first framework, there are positive causal claims, which co-refer with at least some negative causal claims. According to the second framework, (...)
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  34. Natural Functions and Reverse Causation.Lowell Nissen - 1986 - In Nicholas Rescher, Current Issues in Teleology. University Press of America. pp. 129.
     
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    On Efficient Causation for Homosexual Behaviours among Traditional Africans: An Exploration of the Traditional Yoruba Model.Dasaolu Babajide Olugbenga - 2019 - Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics 9 (2):26-37.
    In the face of the recent backlashes against homosexual persons in Africa, on the ground that the phenomenon is un-African and/or threat to procreation and marital values, it is pertinent to review the discourse in the light of how ancient Africans perceived the reality. This is imperative given the lack of consensus on the part of scientists to disinter a conclusive finding on what causes homosexual behaviours among humans. In this research, I employ traditional Yorùbá philosophy to provide a plausible (...)
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    Causation and Intelligibility.David H. Sanford - 1994 - Philosophy 69 (267):55 - 67.
    Hume, in "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding", holds (1) that all causal reasoning is based on experience and (2) that causal reasoning is based on nothing but experience. (1) does not imply (2), and Hume's good reasons for (1) are not good reasons for (2). This essay accepts (1) and argues against (2). A priori reasoning plays a role in causal inference. Familiar examples from Hume and from classroom examples of sudden disappearances and radical changes do not show otherwise. A (...)
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    Report on the Conference "Emergence and Causation" (Macerata, 23-25 September 2015).Ernesto Graziani - 2015 - Humana Mente 8 (29).
    The conference “Emergence and Causation” took place in Macerata on 23–25 September 2015 and was organised by Michele Paolini Paoletti and Francesco Orilia as a major event within the research project “Causal Relata, Mental Causation and Downward Causation”, founded by The John Templeton Foundation and Durham University. In what follows, I shall summarise one by one the contributions offered by the 12 speakers who attended at the conference, attempting to highlight the main points of each of them.
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    M.S. Moore, Causation and Responsibility: An Essay in Law, Morals, and Metaphysics.Peter A. Graham - 2013 - Journal of Moral Philosophy 10 (2):244-246.
  39. (1 other version)Avicenna on Teleology: Final Causation and Goodness.Kara Richardson - 2020 - In Jeffrey K. McDonough, Teleology: A History. New York, NY, United States of America: Oxford University Press.
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    Responsibility and the Causation of Actions.Robert J. Richman - 1969 - American Philosophical Quarterly 6 (3):186 - 197.
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  41. Causal reasoning, causal probabilities, and conceptions of causation.Isabelle Drouet - 2012 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 43 (4):761-768.
    The present paper deals with the tools that can be used to represent causation and to reason about it and, specifically, with their diversity. It focuses on so-called “causal probabilities”—that is, probabilities of effects given one of their causes—and critically surveys a recent paper in which Joyce argues that the values of these probabilities do not depend on one’s conception of causation. I first establish a stronger independence claim: I show that the very definition of causal probabilities is independent of (...)
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    Proportionality, Abstract Causation, and the Exclusion Problem.Alexey Aliyev - 2022 - International Journal of Philosophical Studies 30 (2):127-143.
    A considerable number of philosophers are attracted to what might be called ‘causal type-abstractionism’ – the view that photographs, symphonies, models of cars, novels, flags, and other multiply i...
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    Conscious will and agent causation.G. E. Zuriff - 2004 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (5):678-679.
    Wegner (2002) fails to (1) distinguish conscious will and voluntariness; (2) account for everyday willed acts; and (3) individuate thoughts and acts. Wegner incorrectly implies that (4) we experience acts as willed only when they are caused by unwilled thoughts; (5) thoughts are never true causes of actions; and (6) we experience ourselves as first performing mental acts which then cause our intentional actions.
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    Dis-unified pluralist accounts of causation.Jason Taylor - 2009 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 90 (3):388-401.
    One way of assessing the philosophical literature on causation is to consider views on the nature of the causal relation. Early theorists were 'monists', taking there to be one causal relation. More recent theorists, however, have turned to pluralism, which holds that the causal relation is only accurately captured by two (or more) relations. I argue that one way of being a pluralist – the way which takes there to be exactly two types of causation – is self defeating, if (...)
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    Qualia and mental causation in a physical world: themes from the philosophy of Jaegwon Kim.Terry Horgan, Marcelo Sabates, David Sosa & Jaegwon Kim (eds.) - 2015 - Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
    How does mind fit into nature? Philosophy has long been concerned with this question. No contemporary philosopher has done more to clarify it than Jaegwon Kim, a distinguished analytic philosopher specializing in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. With new contributions from an outstanding line-up of eminent scholars, this volume focuses on issues raised in Kim's work. The chapters cluster around two themes: first, exclusion, supervenience, and reduction, with attention to the causal exclusion argument for which Kim is widely celebrated; and (...)
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    Lewisian-Style Counterfactual Analysis of Causation: A New Solution to the Overdetermination Problem.Dana Goswick - 2010 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 17 (4):461-476.
    Causal overdetermination – i.e. instances in which x, y, and z all occur and intuitively the occurrence of x alone is sufficient for the occurrence of z and the occurrence of y alone is sufficient for the occurrence of z – has long been considered a problem for counterfactual analyses of causation. Intuitively, we want to say both x and y caused z, but standard Lewisian counterfactual analysis yields the result that neither x nor y caused z. David Lewis, himself, (...)
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    Commentary on Jaegwon Kim, "Laws, Causation, and Explanation in the Special Sciences".Michael Sollberger - 2005 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 27 (3/4):339 - 344.
    In the present commentary on Jaegwon Kim's Laws, Causation, and Explanation in the Special Sciences, I first give a short summary of the global problem. In a second step, I go on to sum up and comment on the three arguments which Kim gives to the disadvantage of 'strict' special-science laws. In so doing, I shall focus on the question whether ceteris paribus laws can still apply in special sciences.
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    Divine causation.William James Beale - 1937 - London,: Macmillan & Co..
  49. Avicenna on Teleology: Final Causation and Goodness.Kara Richardson - 2020 - In Jeffrey K. McDonough, Teleology: A History. New York, NY, United States of America: Oxford University Press. pp. 71-89.
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    Newton and Hume on Causation: Alternative Strategies of Simplification.Samuel A. Richmond - 1994 - History of Philosophy Quarterly 11 (1):37 - 52.
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