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Causation by Disconnection
Abstract
The physical and/or intrinsic connection approach to causation has become prominent in the recent literature, with Salmon, Dowe, Menzies, and Armstrong among its leading proponents. I show that there is a type of causation, causation by disconnection, with no physical or intrinsic connection between cause and effect. Only Hume-style conditions approaches and hybrid conditions-connections approaches appear to be able to handle causation by disconnection. Some Hume-style, extrinsic, absence-relating, necessary and/or sufficient condition component of the causal relation proves to be needed.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Schaffer, J.
- Venue
- Philosophy of Science
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2000-06
- Volume
- 67
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 285-300
- ISSN
- 0031-8248 (ISSN-L)
- 1539-767X
- OpenAlex
- W2166266817
- Cited by
- 290
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 13.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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