Causal Models , Token - Causation and Processes
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However, philosophers now have no excuse for overlooking the important developments in this approach. For Judea Pearl in his landmark work (2000) has developed a theory that applies the structural equations approach to token-causation. Subsequently, in collaboration with David Halpern (2001), he has extended and simplified the theory. More recently, Christopher Hitchcock has written a series of intriguing papers exploring issues to do with token-causation within Pearl’s structural equations framework (2001; forthcoming a, b). In this paper I want to continue the philosophical engagement with Pearl’s work by examining whether his theory of token-causation can successfully handle a special class of counterexample, and, if not, how it might be modified to do so.
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