Casting a shadow on Lewis’s theory of causation

Title:

Casting a shadow on Lewis’s theory of causation

Creator:

Sayan, Erdinç

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:b4ce8962-ca78-4fbc-a5c0-d713097ab7a3
uuid:b4ce8962-ca78-4fbc-a5c0-d713097ab7a3
doi:10.31577/orgf.2019.26206

Subject:

absence causation, counterfactual theory of causation, in-fluence theory of causation, overdetermination, preemptive preven-tion, and trumping pre-emption

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

bez média and svazek

Description:

First I present a puzzle involving two opaque objects and a shadow cast on the ground. After I offer a solution to this puzzle by identifying which of the objects is causally responsible for the shadow, I argue that this case poses a counterexample to David Lewis’s latest counterfactual account of causation, known as his in-fluence theory. Along the way, I discuss preemption, overdetermina-tion, absence causation, and trumping preemption.

Language:

Slovak

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

287-297

Source:

Organon F: filozofický časopis | 2019 Volume:26 | Number:2

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

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