Actual causation and compositionality

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Actual causation and compositionality

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Victoria University of Wellington

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Open Access Victoria University of Wellington

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Many theories of actual causation implicitly endorse the claim that if c is an actual cause of e, then either c causes e directly or every intermediary by which c indirectly causes e is itself both an actual cause of e and also an actual effect of c. We think this composi-tionality constraint is plausible. However, as we show, it is not always satisfied by the causal attributions ordinary people make. We conclude by considering what philosophers working on causation should do when the deliver...

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Research paper

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Date created

2020

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J Livengood / Justin Sytsma

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https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Actual_causation_and_compositionality/21136156

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History and philosophy of specific fields not elsewhere classified / Philosophy not elsewhere classified / Science Studies / Philosophy / History and Philosophy of Specific Fields not elsewhere classified

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