Correlations and Giere's theory of causation

Philosophy of Science 52 (4):612-614 (1985)
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After briefly presenting Ronald Giere's (1979, 1980) recent counterfactual characterization of population-level causation, I present two counterexamples to the characterization. The difficulty discussed stems from nonaccidental correlations that can obtain between causally effective and causally neutral factors

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Causal Models with Frequency Dependence.Ronald N. Giere - 1984 - Journal of Philosophy 81 (7):384.
Frequency-dependent causation: A defense of Giere.John Collier - 1983 - Philosophy of Science 50 (4):618-625.

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