Ideas from 'Causality and Determinism' by G.E.M. Anscombe [1971], by Theme Structure
[found in 'Causation' (ed/tr Sosa,E. /Tooley,M.) [OUP 1993,0-19-875094-3]].
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 3. Constraints on the will
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Freedom involves acting according to an idea
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism
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To believe in determinism, one must believe in a system which determines events
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 5. Direction of causation
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With diseases we easily trace a cause from an effect, but we cannot predict effects
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 6. Causation as primitive
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The word 'cause' is an abstraction from a group of causal terms in a language (scrape, push..)
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata
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Causation is relative to how we describe the primary relata [Schaffer,J]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / c. Conditions of causation
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Since Mill causation has usually been explained by necessary and sufficient conditions
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