Trumping preemption
Journal of Philosophy 97 (4):165-181 (2000)
| Abstract | Extant counterfactual accounts of causation (CACs) still cannot handle preemptive causation. I describe a new variety of preemption, defend its possibility, and use it to show the inadequacy of extant CACs. Imagine that it is a law of nature that the first spell cast on a given day match the enchantment that midnight. | |||||||||
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