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Ideas of Phil Dowe, by Text

[Australian, fl. 2000, Associate Professor at the University of Queensland.]

2000 Physical Causation
p.121 Causation interaction is an exchange of conserved quantities, such as mass, energy or charge [Psillos]
p.125 Dowe commends the Conserved Quantity theory as it avoids mention of counterfactuals [Psillos]
p.217 Physical causation consists in transference of conserved quantities [Mumford/Anjum]