Contextual Causal Dependence and Causal Contrastivism

Axiomathes - Tập 32 - Trang 671-684 - 2022
Esteban Céspedes1,2, Peter Baumann3
1Department of Philosophy, Catholic University of the Maule, Talca, Chile
2Center for Studies in Philosophy, Logic and Epistemology, Valparaíso University, Valparaíso, Chile
3Department of Philosophy, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, United States

Tóm tắt

This work presents a defense of causal contrastivism based on causal contexualism. As argued, our proposal on causal contextualism is compatible with both causal contrastivism and causal binarism, including explanations of why and in which sense secondary counterfactuals are relevant.

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