In Making Things Happen, James Woodward develops a new and ambitious comprehensive
theory of causation and explanation that draws on literature from a variety of disciplines and …

Causation is at once familiar and mysterious. Many believe that the causal relation is not
directly observable, but that we nevertheless can somehow detect its presence in the world …

All univocal analyses of causation face counterexamples. An attractive response to this
situation is to become a pluralist about causal relationships.“Causal pluralism” is itself …

Written by one of the preeminent researchers in the field, this book provides a
comprehensive exposition of modern analysis of causation. It shows how causality has …

This book is a unique, cross-disciplinary collection of articles by philosophers, social
scientists and social theorists who explore, at different levels of abstraction, what it means to …

This essay advocates a “functional” approach to causation and causal reasoning: these are
to be understood in terms of the goals and purposes of causal thinking. This approach is …

Explanations are important to us in many contexts: in science, mathematics, philosophy, and
also in everyday and juridical contexts. But what is an explanation? In the philosophical …

Among the many philosophers who hold that causal facts1 are to be explained in terms of—
or more ambitiously, shown to reduce to—facts about what happens, together with facts …

Causation is a central topic in many areas of philosophy. In metaphysics, philosophers want
to know what causation is, and how it is related to laws of nature, probability, action, and …

What is the nature of causation? How is causation linked with explanation? And can there
be an adequate theory of explanation? These questions and many others are addressed in …