The Nature of Causation

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The Nature of Causation

The Nature of Causation

Creator: Oxford University

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

Time and Causation

Both time and causation seems to have the same 'direction’ . Can we explain this?

2016-06-09 00:54:37 5420
Mental Causation

Mental Causation

We do what we do because we believe what we believe. Or do we? How does mental causation work?

2016-06-09 00:45:06 5598
The necessary connection analysis of causation

The necessary connection analysis of causation

The idea that there are real metaphysical necessities relating cause and effect.

2016-06-09 00:39:02 5318
The singularist theory of causation

The singularist theory of causation

The idea that causation is a relation science will one day discover.

2016-06-09 00:29:30 5808
The regularity theory of causation

The regularity theory of causation

Hume's famously influential account of causation

2016-06-09 00:22:35 5504
The counterfactual theory of causation

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.

2016-06-09 00:21:54 5723
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