Causation, influence, and effluence
Analysis 61 (1):11–19 (2001)
| Abstract | Causation, says David Lewis now, is to be understood as the ancestral of counterfactual influence, where C influences E (roughly) iff little changes in C map onto big changes in E. I argue that the influence account provides neither necessary nor sufficient conditions for causation, and suggest that what is missing is the notion of effluence, or physical connection. | |||||||||
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