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Causation

Selected Readings:

Anscombe, G.E.M. “Causality and Determination,” in Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1981.

Davidson, Donald. “Causal Relations,” in Journal of Philosophy 6 (1967): 691-703.

Ducasse,C.J. Causation and the Types of Necessity. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1934: Dover reprint, 1969.

Ehring, Douglas. Causation and Persistence. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Fales, Evan. Causation and Universals. New York and London: Routledge, 1990.

Harre, Rom, and Madden, E.H. Causal Powers: A Theory of Natural Necessity. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1975.

Kim, Jaegwon. “Epiphenomenal and Supervenient Causation,” in Supervenience and Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Lewis, David. “Causation,” in Journal of Philosophy 70 (1973): 556-67.

Mackie, J. L. “Causes and Conditions,” in American Philosophical Quarterly 2 (1965): 245-64.

Salmon, Wesley C. “Causal Connections,” in Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.

Sosa, Ernest, and Tooley, Michael, eds. Causation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.

Suppes, Patrick. A Probabilistic Theory of Causality. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1970.

Tooley, Michael. Causation: A Realist Approach. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987.

________. “The Nature of Causation: A Singularist Account” in Canadian Journal of Philosophy, suppl. Vol. 16 (1990): 271-322.

Von Wright, Georg. Explanation and Understanding. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1971.

Yablo, Stephen. ”Cause and Essence,” in Synthese 93 (1992): 403-49.

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