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 …

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 …

Causation is the most fundamental connection in the universe. Without it, there would be no
science or technology. There would be no moral responsibility either, as none of our …

Some of the chief goals of science-understanding, explanation, prediction, and application
in new technologies-can only be conducted with any purpose if the world has some …

Whether one event causes another depends on the contrast situation with which the alleged
cause is compared. Occasionally this is made explicit. For example, a toothpaste company …

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 …

In an important departure from theories of causation, David Owens proposes that
coincidences have no causes, and that a cause is something which ensures that its effects …

Any adequate approach to causation must provide accounts of causal laws, and of causal
relations between states of affairs, or events, and, in each case, one is confronted with the …

If the core idea of process theories of causation is that causation can be understood in terms
of causal processes and interactions, then the approach should be attributed primarily to …

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 …