A structural equations account of negative causation

Abstract

This paper criticizes a recent account of token causation that states that negative causation involving absences of events is of a fundamentally different kind from positive causation involving events. The paper employs the structural equations framework to advance a theory of token causation that applies uniformly to positive and negative causation alike.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive

    This entry is not archived by us. If you are the author and have permission from the publisher, we recommend that you archive it. Many publishers automatically grant permission to authors to archive pre-prints. By uploading a copy of your work, you will enable us to better index it, making it easier to find.

    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 104,706

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

  • Only published works are available at libraries.

My notes

Similar books and articles

Causal models, token causation, and processes.Peter Menzies - 2004 - Philosophy of Science 71 (5):820-832.
Introduction to Special Issue on 'Actual Causation'.Michael Baumgartner & Luke Glynn - 2013 - Erkenntnis 78 (1):1-8.
A Partial Theory of Actual Causation.Brad Weslake - manuscript
Absence Causation and a Liberal Theory of Causal Explanation.Zhiheng Tang - 2015 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 93 (4):688-705.
Negative causation in causal and mechanistic explanation.D. Benjamin Barros - 2013 - Synthese 190 (3):449-469.
Structural equations and causation.Ned Hall - 2007 - Philosophical Studies 132 (1):109 - 136.
A Regularity Theoretic Approach to Actual Causation.Michael Baumgartner - 2013 - Erkenntnis 78 (1):85-109.
Preemptive Omissions.Joseph Metz - 2024 - Erkenntnis 89 (3):1117-1138.
Structural equations and causation: six counterexamples.Christopher Hitchcock - 2009 - Philosophical Studies 144 (3):391-401.
Sparse Causation and Mere Abundant Causation.Tobias Hansson Wahlberg - 2022 - Philosophical Studies 179 (11):3259-3280.

Analytics

Added to PP
2009-01-28

Downloads
145 (#162,520)

6 months
15 (#212,208)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Citations of this work

A Model-Invariant Theory of Causation.J. Dmitri Gallow - 2021 - Philosophical Review 130 (1):45-96.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references