Single Idea 18527

[catalogued under 26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / e. Probabilistic causation]

Full Idea

The label 'probabilistic causation' is misleading. What you have is not a weakened or tentative kind of causing, but a probability of there being a cause.

Gist of Idea

Probabilistic causation is not a weak type of cause; it is just a probability of there being a cause

Source

John Heil (The Universe as We Find It [2012], 06.5)

Book Reference

Heil,John: 'The Universe as We Find It' [OUP 2012], p.125


A Reaction

The idea of 'probabilistic causation' strikes me as an empty philosophers' concoction, so I agree with Heil.