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Ideas for 'On the Concept of Number', 'Human Freedom and the Self' and 'How Things Persist'

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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata

3445	Causation among objects relates either events or states [Chisholm]
	Full Idea: Between natural objects we may say that causation is a relation between events or states of affairs.
	From: Roderick Chisholm (Human Freedom and the Self [1964], p.28)

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / c. Counterfactual causation

16215	Causation is nothing more than the counterfactuals it grounds? [Hawley]
	Full Idea: Counterfactual accounts of causation say that a causal connection is exhausted by the counterfactuals it appears to ground.
	From: Katherine Hawley (How Things Persist [2001], 3.5)
	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?