Modified causation for psychology.

An Interventionist Approach to Causation in Psychology

My project in this paper is to extend the interventionist analysis of causation to give an account of causation in psychology. Many aspects of empirical investigation into psychological causation fit straightforwardly into the interventionist framework. I address three problems. First, the problem of explaining what it is for a causal relation to be properly psychological rather than merely bio...

Ideas About Causation in Philosophy and Psychology

Philosophical theories summarized here include regularity and necessity theories from Hume to the present; manipulability theory; the theory of powerful particulars; causation as connected changes within a denned state of affairs; departures from "normal" events or from some standard for comparison; causation as a transfer of something between objects; and causal propagation and production. Iss...

Causation in Medical Malpractice: A Modified Valuation Approach

Causation in Medical Malpractice: A Modified Valuation Approach

Ultimate Causation in Evolved Human Political Psychology: Implications for Public Policy

Evolutionary psychology has made enormous progress in understanding how individual and kin selection shape our sexual and family behaviors. In striking contrast, our understanding of the evolution of our uniquely massive scale of social cooperation (kinship-independent; subjectively, the “public” sphere) has been seriously incomplete. We briefly critique theories of human social evolution to id...