Single Idea 10374

[catalogued under 26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation]

Full Idea

Theories of causal connection are: nomological subsumption, statistical correlation, counterfactual dependence, agential manipulability, contiguous change, energy flow, physical processes, property transference, primitivism and eliminativism.

Gist of Idea

There are at least ten theories about causal connections

Source

Jonathan Schaffer (The Metaphysics of Causation [2007], 1.3.1)

Book Reference

'Stanford Online Encyclopaedia of Philosophy', ed/tr. Stanford University [plato.stanford.edu], p.15


A Reaction

Schaffer reduces these to probability and process. I prefer the latter. The first two are wrong, the third right but superficial, the fourth wrong, the fifth, sixth and seventh on the right lines, the eighth wrong, the ninth tempting, and the last wrong.