Högre seminariet i filosofi bjuder in till seminarium med Christian Löw. Seminariet har den engelska titeln "Causation and Counterfactuals".
Abstract (på engelska): The currently most popular theories of causation are counterfactual accounts. These account either reduce causation to counterfactuals or provide a circular yet informative counterfactual analysis. In this talk, I argue that no counterfactual account of causation can succeed. Standard worries about counterfactual accounts focus on problems with cases of redundant causation. By contrast, I suggest that the problem is more foundational. No understanding of counterfactuals renders them suitable for tracking causal structure. Counterfactuals are simply the wrong kind of tools for analyzing causation.
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