Graded Causation and Defaults
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Graded Causation and Defaults
Recent work in psychology and experimental philosophy has shown that judgments of actual causation are often influenced by consideration of defaults, typicality, and normality. A number of philosophers and computer scientists have also suggested that an appeal to such factors can help deal with problems facing existing accounts of actual causation. This paper develops a flexible formal framewor...
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عنوان ژورنال: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0007-0882,1464-3537
DOI: 10.1093/bjps/axt050