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2022
To deal with issues of factual/natural causation and of legal/proximate causation, every system has drawn up a large number of formulas and notions aiming to help courts determine whether the defendant caused the plaintiff’s loss, and to what extent she should be liable for them.
Mauro Bussani +2 more
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To deal with issues of factual/natural causation and of legal/proximate causation, every system has drawn up a large number of formulas and notions aiming to help courts determine whether the defendant caused the plaintiff’s loss, and to what extent she should be liable for them.
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Mental causation as joint causation
Synthese, 2019This paper explores and defends the idea that mental properties and their physical bases jointly cause their physical effects. The paper evaluates the view as an emergentist response to the exclusion problem, comparing it with a competing nonreductive physicalist solution, the compatibilist solution, and argues that the joint causation view is more ...
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Causation and Mental Causation
2015Causation has been widely investigated in the recent philosophy of science and theories have been proliferating over the last decades. At the same time, the problem of mental causation has played a pivotal role in recent debates in the philosophy of mind.
CAMPANER, RAFFAELLA, Gabbani, Carlo
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Abstract This book focuses upon the crucial metaphysical question “What is it for one event to cause another?,” and the view defended is, first, that all reductionist accounts of the nature of causation are open to decisive objections, so that a realist account of causation must be correct, and second, that among realist accounts of ...
Lisa Benjamin, Sara Seck
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Lisa Benjamin, Sara Seck
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Epidemiological Causation and Legal Causation
2018In the fields of the philosophy of law and the philosophy of science, discussions of how epidemiological evidence related to causality is to be viewed by making use of counterfactual inferences have been underway since the mid-20th century. The strongest position regarding this, the potential outcome approach, argues that, with the exception of ...
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2003
Abstract Now that we have established these distinctions, we must proceed to consider causes, their character and number. Knowledge is the object of our inquiry, and men do not think they know a thing till they have grasped the ‘why’ of it (which is to grasp its primary cause).
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Abstract Now that we have established these distinctions, we must proceed to consider causes, their character and number. Knowledge is the object of our inquiry, and men do not think they know a thing till they have grasped the ‘why’ of it (which is to grasp its primary cause).
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