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Ideas of E Sosa / M Tooley, by Text
[American, fl. 1990, Sosa at Brown University, Tooley at Western Australia.]
1993
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Introduction to 'Causation'
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The problem is to explain how causal laws and relations connect, and how they link to the world
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The dominant view is that causal laws are prior; a minority say causes can be explained singly
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p.4
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Either causal relations are given in experience, or they are unobserved and theoretical
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p.4
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If direction of causation is just direction of energy transfer, that seems to involve causation
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p.4
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Causation isn't energy transfer, because an electron is caused by previous temporal parts
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Are causes sufficient for the event, or necessary, or both?
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