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Taking stock of regularity theories of causation
Journal article

Taking stock of regularity theories of causation

M. Johansen
Philosophy Compass, Vol.16(5)
2021

Abstract

This article takes stock of the regularity theory of causation. It considers three challenges to the theory: the problem of joint effects, the problems of redundant causation, and omission-involving causation. The former is often cited as a special, and especially challenging, problem for regularity theories. But the force of this problem has been greatly overstated. The threat to regularity theories instead comes from the latter two. © 2021 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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