• Intervention and Contrastivity 

      Schaffer, Jonathan
      Published 2006-07-20
      Jim Woodward has suggested that that interventionism presupposes a conception of causation that is contrastive for both cause and effect. I will discuss the extent to which contrastivity is presupposed in the notions of ...
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    • Nonlocal causation in Maxwell theory 

      Weinstein, Steven
      Published 2006-07-21
      Maxwell's equations were the inspiration for special relativity and the principle of relativistic "causality", whereby spacelike-separated events are understood to be causally independent. In this talk, I will show that ...
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    • Causal Asymmetry and Culpability 

      Kutach, Doug
      Published 2006-07-20
      In developing an adequate explanation for causal asymmetry it is important to distinguish two importantly different applications of the concept of causation. One role for causation is in prediction. Knowledge of causal ...
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    • Two Varieties of Causal Anti-Realism 

      Weslake, Brad
      Published 2006-07-19
      Agency theories of causation have often been criticised for not being sufficiently realist about causation. In my view recent agency theories have not been dialectically effective in addressing this charge. On the one hand ...
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