The Nature of Causation
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The Nature of Causation
We have causal theories of reference, perception, knowledge, content and numerous other things. If it were to turn out that causation doesn’t exist, we would be in serious trouble! Causation is so important in fact that it has been said that: “With regard to our total conceptual apparatus, causation...
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Time and Causation
Both time and causation seems to have the same 'direction’ . Can we explain this?
Mental Causation
We do what we do because we believe what we believe. Or do we? How does mental causation work?
The necessary connection analysis of causation
The idea that there are real metaphysical necessities relating cause and effect.
The singularist theory of causation
The idea that causation is a relation science will one day discover.
The counterfactual theory of causation
The idea that event c causes event e if and only if had c not had occurred e would not have occurred either.