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Causation, ‘Humean’ Causation and Emptiness

Journal of Indian Philosophy, 2013
One strategy Mādhyamikas use to support their claim that nothing has intrinsic nature (svabhāva) is to argue that things with intrinsic nature could not enter into causal relations. But it is not clear that there is a good Madhyamaka argument against ultimate causation that understands causation in ‘Humean’ terms and understands dharmas as tropes ...
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Mental causation

Think, 1999
When we explain someone's behaviour, we do so by appealing to their mental states – their beliefs, desires, and so on. But, as Fred Dretske explains below, materialists have a hard time explaining how our mental states could have any effect on our behaviour.
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Negative Causation and the Relationality of Causation

2020
Negative causation and dispositions as mutual manifestation partners don’t threaten the relationality of causation. Separating the supervenience of truth on being from explanation and the distinctive relevance of truth-makers enables us to avoid arguments from parsimony against positive causal surrogates drawing upon the idea of truth-maker ...
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Groping for Causation

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1979
"Multifactorial" is fast becoming a vogue word in medicine.Dorland's Medical Dictionarydefines it as "of or pertaining to, or arising through the action of many factors." Curiously, the term has not as yet found its way toWebster's, Random House, andAmerican Heritage. Whether this neologism is a welcome addition to the language of medicine depends to a
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A question of causation

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1978
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Causation and Persistence: A Theory of Causation

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2000
John W. Carroll, Douglas Ehring
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An accident causation model based on safety information cognition and its application

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2021
Shuangyi Cheng
exaly  

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