5861 | People assume events cause what follows them [Aristotle] |
11207 | A cause can exist without its effect, but the effect cannot exist without its cause [Aquinas] |
8410 | A theory of causal relations yields an asymmetry which defines the direction of time [Reichenbach, by Salmon] |
8363 | p is a cause and q an effect (not vice versa) if manipulations of p change q [Wright,GHv] |
8364 | We can imagine controlling floods by controlling rain, but not vice versa [Wright,GHv] |
8351 | With diseases we easily trace a cause from an effect, but we cannot predict effects [Anscombe] |
8413 | Cause must come first in propagations of causal interactions, but interactions are simultaneous [Salmon] |
15278 | Humean accounts of causal direction by time fail, because cause and effect can occur together [Harré/Madden] |
8405 | A theory of causation should explain why cause precedes effect, not take it for granted [Lewis, by Field,H] |
8427 | I reject making the direction of causation axiomatic, since that takes too much for granted [Lewis] |
8433 | There are few traces of an event before it happens, but many afterwards [Lewis, by Horwich] |
8393 | We can only reduce the direction of causation to the direction of time if we are realist about the latter [Tooley] |
8401 | Physical laws are largely time-symmetric, so they make a poor basis for directional causation [Field,H] |
8400 | Identifying cause and effect is not just conventional; we explain later events by earlier ones [Field,H] |
8402 | The only reason for adding the notion of 'cause' to fundamental physics is directionality [Field,H] |
4210 | If the concept of a cause says it precedes its effect, that rules out backward causation by definition [Lowe] |
10375 | At least four rivals have challenged the view that causal direction is time direction [Schaffer,J] |
10389 | Causal order must be temporal, or else causes could be blocked, and time couldn't be explained [Schaffer,J] |
10390 | Causal order is not temporal, because of time travel, and simultanous, joint or backward causes [Schaffer,J] |