Lewis's 'causation as Influence'
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In his ‘Causation as Influence’, David Lewis proposed a counterfactual theory of cause which was designed to improve on his previous account. Here I offer counter-examples to this new account, involving early preemption and late preemption, and a revised account, which is no longer an influence theory, that handles those counter-examples. Lewis’s new account attempts to resort to aspect influence when direct counterfactual dependence as well as cause transitivity fail. Yet, I argue, both Lewis’s account and the revised account fail to set apart being a cause of the occurrence of the effect and causing certain aspects of it. I present a counter-example to both accounts that brings forth this flaw.
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