Full Idea
Counterfactual accounts of causation say that a causal connection is exhausted by the counterfactuals it appears to ground.
Gist of Idea
Causation is nothing more than the counterfactuals it grounds?
Source
Katherine Hawley (How Things Persist [2001], 3.5)
Book Reference
Hawley,Katherine: 'How Things Persist' [OUP 2004], p.87
A Reaction
I am bewildered as to how this became a respectable view in philosophy. I quite understand that this might exhaust the 'logic' of causal relations. Presumably you can have counterfactuals in mathematics which are not causal?