Hitchcock's (2001) treatment of singular and general causation
Minds and Machines 16 (3) (2006)
| Abstract | Hitchcock (2001a) argues that the distinction between singular and general causation conflates the two distinctions ‘actual causation vs. causal tendencies’ and ‘wide vs. narrow causation’. Based on a recent regularity account of causation I will show that Hitchcock’s introduction of the two distinctions is an unnecessary multiplication of causal concepts. | |||||||||
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