1 Foundations of causation 3 1.1 Hume’s regularity theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.2 Probabilistic theories of causation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.3 Counterfactual theories of causation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.4 Our simplified framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

In this paper I will discuss how joint causation as suggested by Arthur Peacocke can on the one hand serve us in the defense of downward causation within emergence theory and on the other hand lead to a deeper understanding of divine action and interaction in panentheism. The question of downward causation lies at the heart of emergence theory and is of great significance for the question wheth...

Abstract The Minimal Theory of Causation, presented in Graßhoff and May, 2001, aspires to be a version regularity analysis causation able correctly predict our causal intuitions. In my article, I will argue that it is unsuccessful this respect. second aim the paper defend Hitchcock’s proposal concerning divisions relations (presented Hitchcock, 2001) against criticism made, Jakob, 2006 on basis...

The counterfactual tradition to defining actual causation has come a long way since Lewis started it off. However there are still important open problems that need to be solved. One of them is the (in)transitivity of causation. Endorsing transitivity was a major source of trouble for the approach taken by Lewis, which is why currently most approaches reject it. But transitivity has never lost i...

I propose a non-Humean theory of causation with “tendencies” as causal connections. Not, however, as “necessary connexions”: causes are not sufficient, they do not necessitate their effects. The theory is designed to be, not an analysis of the concept of causation, but a description of what is the case in typical cases of causation. I therefore call it a metaphysical theory of causation, as opp...

A quite popular approach to solving the Causal Exclusion Problem is to adopt a counterfactual theory of causation. In this paper, I distinguish three versions of the Causal Exclusion Argument. I argue that the counterfactualist approach can block the first two exclusion arguments, because the Causal Inheritance Principle and the Upward Causation Principle upon which the two arguments are based ...