Ceteris paribus conditions and the interventionist account of causality
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Synthese ; 192 (2015), 10. - pp. 3297-3311. - ISSN 0039-7857. - eISSN 1573-0964
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The paper uses a de-relativized (or objectified) variant of Woodward’s definition of direct type-level causation to develop an account of causal ceteris paribus (cp) laws. It argues that the relation between X and Y needs to satisfy three conditions in order to qualify as one of direct type-level causation, that satisfaction of these conditions guarantees the applicability of claims of direct type-level causation, that the context of applicability motivates referring to these conditions as cp conditions, and that claims of direct type-level causation qualify as laws if they are explanatorily deep. The account of causal cp laws defended by the paper derives from a de-relativized variant of Woodward’s definition of direct type-level causation but can be shown not to conflict with Woodward’s thesis that there is no such thing as a cp law.
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HENSCHEN, Tobias, 2015. Ceteris paribus conditions and the interventionist account of causality. In: Synthese. 192(10), pp. 3297-3311. ISSN 0039-7857. eISSN 1573-0964. Available under: doi: 10.1007/s11229-015-0703-7BibTex
@article{Henschen2015Ceter-32728, year={2015}, doi={10.1007/s11229-015-0703-7}, title={Ceteris paribus conditions and the interventionist account of causality}, number={10}, volume={192}, issn={0039-7857}, journal={Synthese}, pages={3297--3311}, author={Henschen, Tobias} }
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