David Lewis's awkward cases of redundant causation
The main line of Lewis's account of causation is in terms of chains of counterfactual dependence. According to his original account (1973), a causal chain is a sequence of two or more events, with counterfactual dependence at each step; and one event is a cause of another if there is a causal c...
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Blackwell Publishing
1999
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