Causation¶
Hitchcock, C. (2012). Causation. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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- Causality
- The unifying thread is the asymmetry: causation is not symmetric; C → E is not equivalent to E → C, setting causation apart from mere correlation or logical implication.
This sourceIn The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Surveys the major theories of causation (regularity, counterfactual, manipulationist, probabilistic, process) and the move toward causal pluralism, supporting the claim that contemporary philosophy treats causation as a family of related concepts unified by directional asymmetry.
- The unifying thread is the asymmetry: causation is not symmetric; C → E is not equivalent to E → C, setting causation apart from mere correlation or logical implication.
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