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Ideas for 'Causal Connections', 'Librium de interpretatione editio secunda' and 'Introduction to 'Causation''

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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation

8324	The problem is to explain how causal laws and relations connect, and how they link to the world [Sosa/Tooley]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation

8328	Causation isn't energy transfer, because an electron is caused by previous temporal parts [Sosa/Tooley]

8327	If direction of causation is just direction of energy transfer, that seems to involve causation [Sosa/Tooley]

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

4784	Salmon says processes rather than events should be basic in a theory of physical causation [Salmon, by Psillos]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / c. Conditions of causation

8330	Are causes sufficient for the event, or necessary, or both? [Sosa/Tooley]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / b. Nomological causation

8325	The dominant view is that causal laws are prior; a minority say causes can be explained singly [Sosa/Tooley]