“Probabilistic Causation” designates a group of theories that aim to characterize the
relationship between cause and effect using the tools of probability theory. The central idea …

Absences. See also Facts, negative; Void and abnormality criterion, 295 of absences, 283
as background conditions, 173–175 and biff, 284–285, 288, 448–449 cannot be causes, 25 …

This dissertation offers an integrated, systematic account of the qualitative, symmetrical
patterns that are shared by all thought experimental activities, which include the wide range …

Orthodox physicalism has a problem with mental causation. If physics is complete and
mental events are not identical to physical events (as multiple-realisation arguments imply) it …

Murali Ramachandran has kindly provided me with four (alleged) counterexamples to the
theory of causation which I recently put forward in Mind (Ramachandran 2000; Noordhof …

In order to keep matters brief, I shall assume knowledge of my Mind paper and Sungho
Choi's paper printed before this brief response (Noordhof 1999; Choi 2002). Sungho Choi …

Causation is one of the oldest topics in philosophy, and has been a central problem for
philosophers since David Hume. Most of the work done in this area has attempted to …