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Ideas of E Sosa / M Tooley, by Text

[American, fl. 1990, Sosa at Brown University, Tooley at Western Australia.]

1993 Introduction to 'Causation'
§1 p.1 The problem is to explain how causal laws and relations connect, and how they link to the world
§1 p.1 The dominant view is that causal laws are prior; a minority say causes can be explained singly
§1 p.4 Either causal relations are given in experience, or they are unobserved and theoretical
§1 p.4 If direction of causation is just direction of energy transfer, that seems to involve causation
§1 p.4 Causation isn't energy transfer, because an electron is caused by previous temporal parts
§2 p.6 Are causes sufficient for the event, or necessary, or both?