Is double prevention causation? Some say yes and some no, but the answer is no. Interrupting prevention, where A prevents B from continuing to prevent something, causation, while blocking intervenes before has begun preventing anything, not. I present two arguments for this thesis. First, it sorts canonical examples of correctly. Second, well-known theoretical that not causation only show causa...

This paper introduces a causation coefficient which is defined in terms of probabilistic causal models. This coefficient is suggested as the natural causal analogue of the Pearson correlation coefficient and permits comparing causation and correlation to each other in a simple, yet rigorous manner. Together, these coefficients provide a natural way to classify the possible correlation/causation...

Abstract A theoretical framework is provided to explore teleonomy as a problem of self-causation, distinct from upward, downward and reticulate causation. Causality theories in biology are often formulated within hierarchy theories, where causation conceptualized running up or down the rungs ladder-like or, more recently, moving between multiple hierarchies. Research on genealogy cosmologies de...