Advancing the counterfactual analysis of causation
What does it mean to say that one event is a cause of another? The simplest counterfactual analyses identify causation with one of two counterfactual-dependence relations: (1) if event c had not occurred, then (distinct) event e would not have occurred; (2) if c had not occurred, e's probabilit...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2003
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3078675 |