13156 | Fancy being unable to distinguish a cause from its necessary background conditions! [Plato] |
5219 | Types of cause are nature, necessity and chance, and mind and human agency [Aristotle] |
11252 | The 'form' of a thing explains why the matter constitutes that particular thing [Aristotle, by Politis] |
11253 | A 'material' cause/explanation is the form of whatever is the source [Aristotle, by Politis] |
13107 | Causes produce a few things in their own right, and innumerable things coincidentally [Aristotle] |
19425 | In the schools the Four Causes are just lumped together in a very obscure way [Leibniz] |
8367 | Causation is defined in terms of a single sequence, and constant conjunction is no part of it [Ducasse] |
15823 | Some propose a distinct 'agent causation', as well as 'event causation' [Chisholm] |
17689 | Absences might be effects, but surely not causes? [Armstrong] |
8435 | Causes are between events ('the explosion') or between facts/states of affairs ('a bomb dropped') [Bennett] |
15253 | If the concept of a cause includes its usual effects, we call it a 'power' [Harré/Madden] |
15555 | Explaining match lighting in general is like explaining one lighting of a match [Lewis] |
8388 | Causation is either direct realism, Humean reduction, non-Humean reduction or theoretical realism [Tooley] |
8389 | Causation distinctions: reductionism/realism; Humean/non-Humean states; observable/non-observable [Tooley] |
11960 | Singular causation is prior to general causation; each aspirin produces the aspirin generalization [Molnar] |
4071 | Causation can be seen in counterfactual terms, or as increased probability, or as energy flow [Crane] |
4789 | Three divisions of causal theories: generalist/singularist, intrinsic/extrinsic, reductive/non-reductive [Psillos] |
17528 | The dispositional account explains causation, as stimulation and manifestation of dispositions [Bird] |
16722 | Scholastic causation is by changes in the primary qualities of hot, cold, wet, dry [Pasnau] |
22605 | Humeans describe the surface of causation, while powers accounts aim at deeper explanations [Ingthorsson] |
22607 | Time and space are not causal, but they determine natural phenomena [Ingthorsson] |