Metaphysical Causation
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Metaphysical Causation
There is a systematic and suggestive analogy between grounding and causation. In my view, this is no coincidence: grounding and causation resemble one another because grounding is a type of causation. I defend the identification of grounding with metaphysical causation from some initial objections, and I draw on the causation literature to explore connections between grounding and counterfactua...
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عنوان ژورنال: Noûs
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0029-4624
DOI: 10.1111/nous.12190