Causation, Explanation, and the Metaphysics of Aspect

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2018)
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Bradford Skow examines important philosophical questions about causation and explanation. His answers rely on a pair of connected distinctions: the distinction between acting and not acting, and that between situations in which an event happens and when something is in some state.

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