Transitivity and proportionality in causation
Transitivity and proportionality in causation
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因果关系的传递性和比例性
DOI:
10.1007/s11229-016-1263-1
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发表时间:
2018
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影响因子:
1.5
通讯作者:
N.McDonnell
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作者:
N.McDonnell
It is widely assumed that causation is transitive, but putative counterexamples abound. These examples come in three varieties: switching cases, short circuit cases, and what I will callmismatchcases. In this paper I focus on the mismatch variety, which is widely taken to be the easiest to resolve. I will first introduce the cases and the existing strategy for dealing with them, then present a new counterexample which is immune to that strategy. In response to this new counterexample I will introduce a novel solution, one drawing on Yablo’s proportionality principle for causation. There is a catch, however. Either proportionality is astrongconstraint—it constrains which causal claims are true—and the solution works, or it is not and causation is not transitive after all. I will argue that the first horn has unacceptable consequences and should be rejected, but that the second horn may be less costly than it initially appears.
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