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  1. (2 other versions)An Essay on Metaphysics.R. G. Collingwood - 1940 - Oxford, England: Oxford University Press UK. Edited by Rex Martin.
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  • (1 other version)Causation in the Law.F. S. McNeilly - 1959 - Philosophy 37 (139):83-84.
    An updated and extended second edition supporting the findings of its well-known predecessor which claimed that courts employ common-sense notions of causation in determining legal responsibility.
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  • Causal Selection versus Causal Parity in Biology: Relevant Counterfactuals and Biologically Normal Interventions.Marcel Weber - forthcoming - In Waters C. Kenneth & Woodward James (eds.), Philosophical Perspectives on Causal Reasoning in Biology. Minnesota Studies in Philosophy of Science. Vol. XXI. University of Minnesota Press.
    Causal selection is the task of picking out, from a field of known causally relevant factors, some factors as elements of an explanation. The Causal Parity Thesis in the philosophy of biology challenges the usual ways of making such selections among different causes operating in a developing organism. The main target of this thesis is usually gene centrism, the doctrine that genes play some special role in ontogeny, which is often described in terms of information-bearing or programming. This paper is (...)
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  • (1 other version)The Cement of the Universe: A Study of Causation.John Leslie Mackie - 1974 - Clarendon Press.
    In this book, J. L. Mackie makes a careful study of several philosophical issues involved in his account of causation. Mackie follows Hume's distinction between causation as a concept and causation as it is ‘in the objects’ and attempts to provide an account of both aspects. Mackie examines the treatment of causation by philosophers such as Hume, Kant, Mill, Russell, Ducasse, Kneale, Hart and Honore, and von Wright. Mackie's own account involves an analysis of causal statements in terms of counterfactual (...)
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  • Cause and Norm.Christopher Hitchcock & Joshua Knobe - 2009 - Journal of Philosophy 106 (11):587-612.
    Much of the philosophical literature on causation has focused on the concept of actual causation, sometimes called token causation. In particular, it is this notion of actual causation that many philosophical theories of causation have attempted to capture.2 In this paper, we address the question: what purpose does this concept serve? As we shall see in the next section, one does not need this concept for purposes of prediction or rational deliberation. What then could the purpose be? We will argue (...)
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  • Difference-making in context.Peter Menzies - 2004 - In John Collins, Ned Hall & Laurie Paul (eds.), Causation and Counterfactuals. MIT Press.
    Several different approaches to the conceptual analysis of causation are guided by the idea that a cause is something that makes a difference to its effects. These approaches seek to elucidate the concept of causation by explicating the concept of a difference-maker in terms of better-understood concepts. There is no better example of such an approach than David Lewis’ analysis of causation, in which he seeks to explain the concept of a difference-maker in counterfactual terms. Lewis introduced his counterfactual theory (...)
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  • Causation as a secondary quality.Peter Menzies & Huw Price - 1993 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 44 (2):187-203.
    In this paper we defend the view that the ordinary notions of cause and effect have a direct and essential connection with our ability to intervene in the world as agents.1 This is a well known but rather unpopular philosophical approach to causation, often called the manipulability theory. In the interests of brevity and accuracy, we prefer to call it the agency theory.2 Thus the central thesis of an agency account of causation is something like this: an event A is (...)
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  • Causation, agency, and independence.Daniel M. Hausman - 1997 - Philosophy of Science 64 (4):25.
    This paper explores versions of agency or manipulability theories of causation and argues that they are unacceptable both for the well-known reasons of their anthropomorphism, limited scope, and circularity and because they are subsumed by an alternative "independence" theory of causation, which is free of these difficulties.
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  • Getting rid of interventions.Alexander Reutlinger - 2012 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 43 (4):787-795.
    According to James Woodward’s influential interventionist account of causation, X is a cause of Y iff, roughly, there is a possible intervention on X that changes Y. Woodward requires that interventions be merely logically possible. I will argue for two claims against this modal character of interventions: First, merely logically possible interventions are dispensable for the semantic project of providing an account of the meaning of causal statements. If interventions are indeed dispensable, the interventionist theory collapses into a counterfactual theory (...)
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  • The problem of causal selection.Germund Hesslow - 1988 - In Denis J. Hilton (ed.), Contemporary science and natural explanation: commonsense conceptions of causality. New York: New York University Press.
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  • Causation and Experimentation.Daniel M. Hausman - 1986 - American Philosophical Quarterly 23 (2):143 - 154.
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  • (4 other versions)The Cement of the Universe: A Study of Causation.J. L. Mackie - 1975 - Philosophy 50 (193):362-364.
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  • What’s in a Cause?: The Pragmatic Dimensions of Genetic Explanations. [REVIEW]Lisa Gannett - 1999 - Biology and Philosophy 14 (3):349-373.
    The paper argues for a pragmatic account of genetic explanation. This is to say that when a disease or other trait is termed genetic, the reasons for singling out genes as causes over other, also necessary, genetic and nongenetic conditions are not wholly theoretical but include pragmatic dimensions. Whether the explanation is the presence of a trait in an individual or differences in a trait among individuals, genetic explanations are context-dependent in three ways: they are relative to a causal background (...)
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  • Science, truth, and democracy. [REVIEW]M. Ruse - 2003 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 81 (2):280 – 281.
    Book Information Science, Truth, and Democracy. By Philip Kitcher. Oxford. New York. 2001. Pp. xiii + 219. US$27.50.
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  • (1 other version)The Century of the Gene. [REVIEW]Paolo Palladino - 2002 - British Journal for the History of Science 35 (2):213-250.
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  • Causal judgments and causal explanations.Samuel Gorovitz - 1965 - Journal of Philosophy 62 (23):695-711.
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  • (4 other versions)The Cement of the Universe: A Study of Causation.J. L. Mackie - 1975 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 26 (4):353-355.
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  • (1 other version)An Essay on Metaphysics.R. G. Collingwood - 1941 - Mind 50 (198):184-190.
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  • V.—On the So-Called Idea of Causation.Robin George Collingwood - 1938 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 38 (1):85-112.
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  • Cancer Wars -- How Politics Shapes What We Know and Don't Know about Cancer.S. Booth - 1997 - Journal of Medical Ethics 23 (4):255-256.
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  • Genes and society.Lisa Gannett - 2008 - In Michael Ruse (ed.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy of biology. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 451.
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