L. A. Paul, Ned Hall-Causation_ A User's Guide-Oxford University Press (2013)
Contents
Preface vii
Annotated list of figures ix
1 The scope and aims of this “guide” 1
1 Introduction 1
2 Some remarks on method 2
3 Overview of the project 4
2 Framework and preliminaries 7
1 Framework 7
2 The rival approaches 13
3 Methodological redux 24
4 Topics not addressed in detail 58
3 Varieties of redundant causation 70
1 Joint effects 70
2 Early preemption 74
3 Tampering 92
4 Late preemption 99
5 Overdetermination 143
6 Black-box cases 161
7 The lessons of redundant causation 168
4 Causation involving omissions 173
1 Three kinds of cases 173
2 The question of uniform treatment 176
3 Trouble with causation involving omissions 190
4 Methodology yet again 212
5 Accommodating omission-involving causation 212
5 Cases that threaten transitivity 215
1 Double prevention 215
2 Switching 232
6 Concluding remarks 245
1 A deep divide 245
2 The method by counterexample 249
3 The causal method 252
4 Cognate debates 257
References 261
Index of Names 269
Subject Index 271
                                        
                                    
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