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One philosophical approach to causation sees counterfactual dependence as the key tothe explanation of causal facts: for example, events c (the cause) and e (the effect) both occur,but had c not occurred, e would not have occurred either. The counterfactual analysis of causationbecame a focus of philosophical debate after the 1973 publication of the late David Lewis'sgroundbreaking paper, "Causation," which argues against the previously accepted "regularity"analysis and in favor of what he called the "promising alternative" of the counterfactual analysis.Thirty years after Lewis's paper, this book brings together some of the most important recent workconnecting--or, in some cases, disputing the connection between--counterfactuals and causation,including the complete version of Lewis's Whitehead lectures, "Causation as Influence," a majorreworking of his original paper. Also included is a more recent essay by Lewis, "Void and Object,"on causation by omission. Several of the essays first appeared in a special issue of the Journal ofPhilosophy, but most, including the unabridged version of "Causation as Influence," are publishedfor the first time or in updated forms.Other topics considered include the "trumping" of one eventover another in determining causation; de facto dependence; challenges to the transitivity ofcausation; the possibility that entities other than events are the fundamental causal relata; thedistinction between dependence and production in accounts of causation; the distinction betweencausation and causal explanation; the context-dependence of causation; probabilistic analyses ofcausation; and a singularist theory of causation.
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Ned Hall is Associate Professor of Philosophy at MIT.
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