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Unboxing the Concepts in Newcomb’s Paradox:Causation,Prediction,Decision in Causal Knowledge Patterns
evidential vs causal decision theory Newcomb’s paradox Bayes nets causal models interventionist account of causation
2016/6/15
In Nozick’s rendition of the decision situation given in Newcomb’s Paradox dominance and the principle of maximum expected utility recommend different strategies. While evidential decision theory (EDT...
Causation,Intervention and Agency—Woodward on Menzies and Price
Causation agency Woodward interventionism manipulation
2016/6/15
In his influential book 'Making Things Happen' (Oxford, 2003) and in other places, Jim Woodward has noted some affinities between his own account of causation and that of Menzies and Price (‘Causation...
Causal Foundationalism,Physical Causation,and Difference-Making
Causation Difference-Making Physical Causation Causal Foundationalism
2016/6/13
An influential tradition in the philosophy of causation has it that all token causal facts are, or are reducible to, facts about difference-making. Challenges to this tradition have typically focused ...
Introduction to Special Issue on 'Actual Causation'
Causation Actual Causation Causal Models Structural Equations Causal Graphs Counterfactual Theories of Causation Regularity Theories of Causation Manipulationist Theories of Causation Interventions Psychology of Causation Causal Decision Theory Functional Theories of Causation
2016/6/12
An actual cause of some token effect is itself a (distinct) token event (or fact, or state of affairs, …) that helped to bring about that effect. The notion of an actual cause is different from that o...
A theory of causation: causae causantes (originating causes) as inus conditions in branching space-times
causation indeterminism inus conditions branching space-times
2011/9/6
Branching space-times (BST) theory, as developed elsewhere, permits a sound and rigorously definable notion of ``originating cause'' or causa causans---a type of transition event---of an outcome event...
In studying causation, many examples are presented assuming that determinism holds in the world of the example such as the notoriously difficult to resolve preemptive and preventative situations. We s...